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A Comparison between Hofer's metric and C^1-topology

Symplectic Geometry 2019-05-08 v1

Abstract

Hofer's metric is a bi-invariant metric on Hamiltonian diffeomorphism groups. Our main result shows that the topology induced from Hofer's metric is weaker than C^1-topology if the symplectic manifold is closed.

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@article{arxiv.1905.02627,
  title  = {A Comparison between Hofer's metric and C^1-topology},
  author = {Yoshihiro Sugimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02627},
  year   = {2019}
}