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Characterizing symplectic capacities on ellipsoids

Symplectic Geometry 2024-09-10 v2

Abstract

It is a long-standing conjecture that all symplectic capacities which are equal to the Gromov width for ellipsoids coincide on a class of convex domains in R2n\mathbb{R}^{2n}. It is known that they coincide for monotone toric domains in all dimensions. In this paper, we study whether requiring a capacity to be equal to the kthk^{th} Ekeland-Hofer capacity for all ellipsoids can characterize it on a class of domains. We prove that for k=n=2k=n=2, this holds for convex toric domains, but not for all monotone toric domains. We also prove that for k=n3k=n\ge 3, this does not hold even for convex toric domains.

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@article{arxiv.2312.06476,
  title  = {Characterizing symplectic capacities on ellipsoids},
  author = {Jean Gutt and Vinicius G. B. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06476},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures; minor changes

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