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Commuting symplectomorphisms on a surface and the flux homomorphism

Symplectic Geometry 2023-06-21 v5 Group Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let (S,ω)(S,\omega) be a closed connected oriented surface whose genus ll is at least two equipped with a symplectic form. Then we show the vanishing of the cup product of the fluxes of commuting symplectomorphisms. This result may be regarded as an obstruction for commuting symplectomorphisms. In particular, the image of an abelian subgroup of Symp0c(S,ω)\mathrm{Symp}_0^c(S, \omega) under the flux homomorphism is isotropic with respect to the natural intersection form on H1(S;R)H^1(S;\mathbb{R}). The key to the proof is a refinement of the non-extendability result, previously given by the first-named and second-named authors, for Py's Calabi quasimorphism μP\mu_P on Ham(S,ω)\mathrm{Ham}(S, \omega).

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@article{arxiv.2102.12161,
  title  = {Commuting symplectomorphisms on a surface and the flux homomorphism},
  author = {Morimichi Kawasaki and Mitsuaki Kimura and Takahiro Matsushita and Masato Mimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12161},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

The authors found Rousseau's very important previous work (Theorem 1.2) and thus they add his result and erased Subsection 4.3 in the previous version, published in Geom. Funct. Anal., 32 pages, 4 figures