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Given two four-dimensional symplectic manifolds, together with knots in their boundaries, we define an ``anchored symplectic embedding'' to be a symplectic embedding, together with a two-dimensional symplectic cobordism between the knots…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Michael Hutchings , Agniva Roy , Morgan Weiler , Yuan Yao

ECH capacities are rich obstructions to symplectic embeddings in 4-dimensions that have also been seen to arise in the context of algebraic positivity for (possibly singular) projective surfaces. We extend this connection to relate general…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Ben Wormleighton

Let (M,\omega) be a symplectic manifold, and (\Sigma,\sigma) a closed connected symplectic 2-manifold. We construct a weakly symplectic form {\omega^{D}}_{(\Sigma, \sigma)} on the space of immersions \Sigma \to M that is a special case of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-03 Liat Kessler

We give finiteness results and some classifications up to diffeomorphism of minimal strong symplectic fillings of Seifert fibered spaces over S^2 satisfying certain conditions, with a fixed natural contact structure. In some cases we can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Laura Starkston

We survey the progress on the study of symplectic geometry past five decades. The survey focuses on the convexity properties of a moment map, the classification of symplectic actions, the symplectic embedding problems, and the theory of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jae-Hyun Yang

We prove that a Weinstein domain symplectically embedded in a closed symplectic manifold always admits symplectic hypersurfaces in its complement, possibly after a deformation. As a consequence, we obtain an obstruction for a closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Thomas E. Mark , Bülent Tosun

We provide a lower bound for the embedding capacity of higher-dimensional symplectic ellipsoids, formulated in terms of the Lagrangian capacity of ellipsoids. Our approach relies on examining the Borman--Sheridan class of a Weinstein…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Shah Faisal

We characterize when some small Seifert fibered spaces can be the convex boundaries of symplectic rational homology balls and give strong restrictions for others to bound such manifolds. In particular, we show that the only spherical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-15 John B. Etnyre , Burak Ozbagci , Bülent Tosun

This note constructs sharp obstructions for stabilized symplectic embeddings of an ellipsoid into a ball, in the case when the initial four-dimensional ellipsoid has `eccentricity' of the form 3n-1 for some integer n.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Dusa McDuff

We give detailed descriptions of gluing pseudoholomorphic maps in symplectic geometry, especially in the presence of an obstruction bundle. The main motivation is to try to compare the symplectic and enumerative invariants of algebraic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Zinger

We develop new methods of both constructing and obstructing symplectic embeddings into non-toric rational surfaces using the theory of Newton-Okoukov bodies. Applications include sharp embedding results for concave toric domains into…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Julian Chaidez , Ben Wormleighton

We introduce the notion of a symplectic capacity relative to a coisotropic submanifold of a symplectic manifold, and we construct two examples of such capacities through modifications of the Hofer-Zehnder capacity. As a consequence, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Samuel Lisi , Antonio Rieser

We apply techniques from symplectic geometry to extend and give a new proof of the complex convexity theorem of Gindikin-Kroetz.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernhard Kroetz , Michael Otto

We consider the Tarski--Bang problem about covering of convex bodies by planks. The results of this kind give a lower bound on the sum of widths of planks (regions between a pair of parallel hyperplanes) covering a given convex body.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Arseniy Akopyan , Roman Karasev , Fedor Petrov

For any nonempty, compact and fiberwise convex set $K$ in $T^*\mathbb{R}^n$, we prove an isomorphism between symplectic homology of $K$ and a certain relative homology of loop spaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We also prove a formula which computes…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Kei Irie

Let $X$ be a union of a sequence of symplectic manifolds of increasing dimension and let $M$ be a manifold with a closed $2$-form $\omega$. We use Tischler's elementary method for constructing symplectic embeddings in complex projective…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Manuel Araujo , Gustavo Granja

We explicitly construct a symplectomorphism that relates magnetic twists to the invariant hyperk\"ahler structure of the tangent bundle of a Hermitian symmetric space. This symplectomorphism reveals foliations by (pseudo-) holomorphic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Johanna Bimmermann

We consider dynamically convex star-shaped domains in a symplectic vector space of dimension $4$. For such a domain, a ``Hopf orbit'' is a closed characteristic in the boundary which is unknotted and has self-linking number $-1$. We show…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Umberto Hryniewicz , Michael Hutchings , Vinicius G. B. Ramos

We derive an obstruction to representing a homology class of a symplectic 4-manifold by an embedded, possibly disconnected, symplectic surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-05 M. J. D. Hamilton

In this paper, we introduce a new kind of Siegel upper half space and consider the symplectic geometry on it explicitly under the action of the group of all holomorphic transformations of it. The results and methods will form a basis for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Tianqin Wang , Tianze Wang , Hongwen Lu