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Continuous Hamiltonian dynamics and area-preserving homeomorphism group of $D^2$

Symplectic Geometry 2016-06-23 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to propose a scheme of a proof of the nonsimpleness of the group HomeoΩ(D2,D2)Homeo^\Omega(D^2,\partial D^2) of area preserving homeomorphisms of the 2-disc D2D^2. We first establish the existence of Alexander isotopy in the category of Hamiltonian homeomorphisms. This reduces the question of extendability of the well-known Calabi homomorphism Cal:DiffΩ(D1,D2)R{\rm Cal}:Diff^\Omega(D^1,\partial D^2) \to \mathbb R to a homomorphism Cal:Hameo(D2,D2)R\overline{{\rm Cal}}:Hameo(D^2,\partial D^2) \to \mathbb R to that of the vanishing of the basic phase function fFf_{\underline{\mathbb F}}, a Floer theoretic graph selector previously constructed by the author, that is associated to the graph of the topological Hamiltonian loop and its normalized Hamiltonian F\underline{F} on S2S^2 that is obtained via the natural embedding D2S2D^2 \hookrightarrow S^2. Here Hameo(D2,D2)Hameo(D^2,\partial D^2) is the group of Hamiltonian homeomorphisms introduced by M\"uller and the author. We then provide an evidence of this vanishing conjecture by proving the conjecture for the special class of \emph{weakly graphical} topological Hamiltonian loops on D2D^2 via a study of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04307,
  title  = {Continuous Hamiltonian dynamics and area-preserving homeomorphism group of $D^2$},
  author = {Yong-Geun Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04307},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

32 pages, Comments welcome; v2) 35 pages, an error in the proof of Theorem 1.8 corrected, a new section 9 added, many typos corrected and overall presentation improved