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A quasi-isometric embedding into the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms with Hofer's metric

Symplectic Geometry 2017-03-16 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We construct an embedding Φ\Phi of [0,1][0,1]^{\infty} into Ham(M,ω)Ham(M, \omega), the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a suitable closed symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M, \omega). We then prove that Φ\Phi is in fact a quasi-isometry. After imposing further assumptions on (M,ω)(M, \omega), we adapt our methods to construct a similar embedding of R[0,1]\mathbb{R} \oplus [0,1]^{\infty} into either Ham(M,ω)Ham(M, \omega) or Ham~(M,ω)\widetilde{Ham}(M, \omega), the universal cover of Ham(M,ω)Ham(M, \omega). Along the way, we prove results related to the filtered Floer chain complexes of radially symmetric Hamiltonians. Our proofs rely heavily on a continuity result for barcodes (as presented in the work of M. Usher and J. Zhang) associated to filtered Floer homology viewed as a persistence module.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03807,
  title  = {A quasi-isometric embedding into the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms with Hofer's metric},
  author = {Bret Stevenson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03807},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages, 10 figures. v2: minor changes