English

The sharp $C^0$-fragmentation property for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms on surfaces

Symplectic Geometry 2025-10-15 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we present a C0C^0-fragmentation property for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. More precisely, it is known that for a given open covering U\mathcal{U} of a compact symplectic surface we can write each C0C^0-small enough Hamiltonian diffeomorphism as the composition of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms compactly supported inside the open sets of the covering U\mathcal{U}. We show that such a decomposition can be done with a Lipschitz estimate on the C0C^0-norm of the fragments. We also show the same property for the kernel of θ\theta, the mass-flow homomorphism for homeomorphisms. This answers a question from Buhovsky and Seyfaddini.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.15767,
  title  = {The sharp $C^0$-fragmentation property for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms on surfaces},
  author = {Baptiste Serraille},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15767},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages, 3 figures. v2: 21 pages, 4 figures, weakened hypothesis in Theorem 2 after a mistake spotted by the referee, section added on the optimal constant of Corollary 1

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:30:55.897Z