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Quasimorphisms on surfaces and continuity in the Hofer norm

Symplectic Geometry 2019-06-21 v1

Abstract

There is a number of known constructions of quasimorphisms on Hamiltonian groups. We show that on surfaces many of these quasimorphisms are not compatible with the Hofer norm in a sense they are not continuous and not Lipschitz. The only exception known to the author is the Calabi quasimorphism on a sphere and the induced quasimorphisms on genus-zero surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08429,
  title  = {Quasimorphisms on surfaces and continuity in the Hofer norm},
  author = {Michael Khanevsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08429},
  year   = {2019}
}