Symplectic aspects of the first eigenvalue

DOI10.1515/CRLL.1998.089MaRDI QIDQ4215754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonid Polterovich

Publication date 28 October 1998

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9705003

zbMATH Keywords

first eigenvalueHamiltonian symplectic fibrationsRiemannian metricsplit symplectic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: There are two themes in the present paper. The first one is spelled out in the title, and is inspired by an attempt to find an analogue of Hersch-Yang-Yau estimate for $lambd{a}_1$ of surfaces in symplectic category. In particular we prove that every split symplectic manifold $T^{4}timesM$ admits a compatible Riemannian metric whose first eigenvalue is arbitrary large. On the other hand for Kahler metrics compatible with a given integral symplectic form an upper bound for $lambd{a}_1$ does exist. The second theme is the study of Hamiltonian symplectic fibrations over the 2-sphere. We construct a numerical invariant called the size of a fibration which arises as the solution of certain variational problems closely related to Hofer's geometry, K-area and coupling. In some examples it can be computed with the use of Gromov-Witten invariants. The link between these two themes is given by an observation that the first eigenvalue of a Riemannian metric compatible with a symplectic fibration admits a universal upper bound in terms of the size.

Review text

There are two themes in the present paper. The first one is spelled out in the title, and is inspired by an attempt to find an analogue of the Hersch-Yang-Yau estimate for \(\lambda_1\) of surfaces in the symplectic category. In particular, we prove that every split symplectic manifold \(T^4\times M\) admits a compatible Riemannian metric whose first eigenvalue is arbitrarily large. On the other hand, for Kähler metrics compatible with a given integral symplectic form, an upper bound for \(\lambda_1\) does exist. The second theme is the study of Hamiltonian symplectic fibrations over \(S^2\). We construct a numerical invariant called the size of a fibration which arises as the solution of certain variational problems closely related to Hofer's geometry, K-area and coupling. In some examples, it can be computed with the use of Gromov-Witten invariants. The link between these two themes is given by an observation that the first eigenvalue of a Riemannian metric compatible with a symplectic fibration admits a universal upper bound in terms of the size.

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