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On the Gromov width of polygon spaces

Symplectic Geometry 2017-05-16 v2

Abstract

For generic r=(r1,,rn)R+nr=(r_1,\ldots,r_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n_+ the space M(r)\mathcal{M}(r) of nn--gons in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with edges of lengths rr is a smooth, symplectic manifold. We investigate its Gromov width and prove that the expression 2πmin{2rj,(ijri)rjj=1,,n}2\pi \min \{2 r_j, (\sum_{i \neq j} r_i) - r_j\,\,|\, j=1,\ldots,n\} is the Gromov width of all (smooth) 55--gon spaces and of 66--gon spaces, under some condition on rR+6r \in \mathbb{R}^6_+. The same formula constitutes a lower bound for all (smooth) spaces of 66--gons. Moreover, we prove that the Gromov width of M(r)\mathcal{M}(r) is given by the above expression when M(r)\mathcal{M}(r) is symplectomorphic to CPn3\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{n-3}, for any n4n \geq 4.

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@article{arxiv.1501.00298,
  title  = {On the Gromov width of polygon spaces},
  author = {Alessia Mandini and Milena Pabiniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00298},
  year   = {2017}
}

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39 pages, 14 figures, to appear on Transformation Groups