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Instantaneous Hamiltonian displaceability and arbitrary symplectic squeezability for critically negligible sets

Symplectic Geometry 2024-09-09 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We call a metric space ss-negligible iff its ss-dimensional Hausdorff measure vanishes. We show that every countably mm-rectifiable subset of R2n\mathbb{R}^{2n} can be displaced from every (2nm)(2n-m)-negligible subset by a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism that is arbitrarily CC^\infty-close to the identity. As a consequence, every countably nn-rectifiable and nn-negligible subset of R2n\mathbb{R}^{2n} is arbitrarily symplectically squeezable. Both results are sharp w.r.t. the parameter ss in the ss-negligibility assumption. The proof of our squeezing result uses folding. Potentially, our folding method can be modified to show that the Gromov width of B12nAB^{2n}_1\setminus A equals π\pi for every countably (n1)(n-1)-rectifiable closed subset AA of the open unit ball B12nB^{2n}_1. This means that AA is not a barrier.

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@article{arxiv.2408.17444,
  title  = {Instantaneous Hamiltonian displaceability and arbitrary symplectic squeezability for critically negligible sets},
  author = {Yann Guggisberg and Fabian Ziltener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17444},
  year   = {2024}
}

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32 pages, 4 figures (redrawn)