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Dehn-Seidel twist, $C^0$ symplectic topology and barcodes

Symplectic Geometry 2021-04-23 v2

Abstract

We initiate the study of the C0C^0 symplectic mapping class group, i.e. the group of isotopy classes of symplectic homeomorphisms. We prove that none of the different powers of the square of the Dehn-Seidel twist belong to the same connected component of the group of symplectic homeomorphisms of certain Liouville domains. This generalizes to the C0C^0 setting a celebrated result of Seidel. In other words, we obtain the non-triviality of the C0C^0 symplectic mapping class group in these domains and in fact an element of infinite order. For that purpose, we develop a method coming from Floer theory and the theory of barcodes. This builds on recent developments of C0C^0-symplectic topology. In particular, we adapt and generalize to our context results by Buhovsky-Humili\`ere-Seyfaddini and Kislev-Shelukhin.

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@article{arxiv.2101.07878,
  title  = {Dehn-Seidel twist, $C^0$ symplectic topology and barcodes},
  author = {Alexandre Jannaud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07878},
  year   = {2021}
}