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A distance expanding flow on exact Lagrangian cobordism classes

Symplectic Geometry 2016-08-23 v1

Abstract

Given an exact Lagrangian LL of an exact symplectic manifold (M,dλ)(M,d\lambda ), Cornea and Shelukhin recently introduced a remarkable "cobordism metric" dcd_c on the exact Lagrangian cobordism class L(L)\mathcal{L}(L) of LL. In this note we show that the Liouville flow of (M,dλ)(M,d\lambda ) induces a flow on (L(L),dc)(\mathcal{L}(L),d_c) which expands cobordism distances. In particular we deduce that (L(L),dc)(\mathcal{L}(L),d_c) has infinite diameter whenever the Liouville flow is complete. We also discuss (Hamiltonian and Lagrangian) Hofer-geometric versions of our result. The proof only uses elementary differential geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05821,
  title  = {A distance expanding flow on exact Lagrangian cobordism classes},
  author = {Mads R. Bisgaard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05821},
  year   = {2016}
}

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