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Hamiltonian commutators with large Hofer norm

Symplectic Geometry 2021-06-15 v2

Abstract

We show that commutators of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms may have arbitrarily large Hofer norm. The proposed technique is applicable to positive genus surfaces and their products. This gives partial answer to a question by McDuff and Polterovich.

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@article{arxiv.1409.7420,
  title  = {Hamiltonian commutators with large Hofer norm},
  author = {Michael Khanevsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7420},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages; updated to incorporate referee's remarks, to appear in the Journal of Symplectic Geometry

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