English

New energy-capacity-type inequalities and uniqueness of continuous Hamiltonians

Symplectic Geometry 2021-11-30 v2

Abstract

We prove a new variant of the energy-capacity inequality for closed rational symplectic manifolds (as well as certain open manifolds such as cotangent bundle of closed manifolds...) and we derive some consequences to C^0-symplectic topology. Namely, we prove that a continuous function which is a uniform limit of smooth Hamiltonians whose flows converge to the identity for the spectral (or Hofer's) distance must vanish. This gives a new proof of uniqueness of continuous generating Hamiltonian for hameomorphisms. This also allows us to improve a result by Cardin and Viterbo on the C^0-rigidity of the Poisson bracket.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.2134,
  title  = {New energy-capacity-type inequalities and uniqueness of continuous Hamiltonians},
  author = {Vincent Humilière and Rémi Leclercq and Sobhan Seyfaddini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.2134},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages. v2. Several minor changes. Reference list updated. To appear in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici