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Symplectic embeddings of four-dimensional polydisks into half integer ellipsoids

Symplectic Geometry 2022-03-30 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We obtain new sharp obstructions to symplectic embeddings of four-dimensional polydisks P(a,1)P(a,1) into four-dimensional ellipsoids E(bc,c)E(bc,c) when 1a<21\le a< 2 and bb is a half-integer. When 1a<2O(b1)1 \leq a < 2-O(b^{-1}) we demonstrate that P(a,1)P(a,1) symplectically embeds into E(bc,c)E(bc,c) if and only if a+bbca+b\le bc. Our results show that inclusion is optimal and extend the result by Hutchings \cite{H} when bb is an integer. Our proof is based on a combinatorial criterion developed by Hutchings \cite{H} to obstruct symplectic embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.2010.06687,
  title  = {Symplectic embeddings of four-dimensional polydisks into half integer ellipsoids},
  author = {Leo Digiosia and Jo Nelson and Haoming Ning and Morgan Weiler and Yirong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.06687},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

38 pages, to appear in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications. Additional details are provided on the subtleties of the various convex generators used in the Hutchings criterion to obtain obstructions. More details on the suboptimal nature of obstructions coming from ECH capacities are also given in S 1.2

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