English

Symplectic embeddings into four-dimensional concave toric domains

Symplectic Geometry 2017-05-17 v2

Abstract

ECH capacities give obstructions to symplectically embedding one symplectic four-manifold with boundary into another. We compute the ECH capacities of a large family of symplectic four-manifolds with boundary, called "concave toric domains". Examples include the (nondisjoint) union of two ellipsoids in R4\mathbb{R}^4. We use these calculations to find sharp obstructions to certain symplectic embeddings involving concave toric domains. For example: (1) we calculate the Gromov width of every concave toric domain; (2) we show that many inclusions of an ellipsoid into the union of an ellipsoid and a cylinder are "optimal"; and (3) we find a sharp obstruction to ball packings into certain unions of an ellipsoid and a cylinder.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6647,
  title  = {Symplectic embeddings into four-dimensional concave toric domains},
  author = {Keon Choi and Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner and David Frenkel and Michael Hutchings and Vinicius G. B. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6647},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

31 pages, 2 figures; fixed one typo, updated references, to appear in Journal of Topology

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