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The ellipsoidal capacity function of a symplectic four manifold $X$ measures how much the form on $X$ must be dilated in order for it to admit an embedded ellipsoid of eccentricity $z$. In most cases there are just finitely many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Nicki Magill , Dusa McDuff , Morgan Weiler

In any dimension $2n \ge 6$ we show that certain spaces of symplectic embeddings of a polydisk into a product $B^4 \times \Bbb R^{2(n-2)}$ of a $4$-ball and Euclidean space, are not path connected. We also show that any pair of such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Richard Hind

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

In this note, we obtain new obstructions to symplectic embeddings of a product of disks (a polydisk) into a 4-dimensional ball. The polydisk P(r,s) is the product of the disk of area r with the disk of area s. The ball of capacity a,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Richard Hind , Samuel Lisi

These notes are based on a five-part minicourse on stabilized symplectic embeddings given in Les Mar\'ecottes, Switzerland during a September 2025 workshop. Our main goal is to explain the recent resolution of the (restricted) stabilized…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Kyler Siegel

While symplectic manifolds have no local invariants, they do admit many global numerical invariants. Prominent among them are the so-called symplectic capacities. Different capacities are defined in different ways, and so relations between…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Cieliebak , H. Hofer , J. Latschev , F. Schlenk

We compute stationary gravitational descendants in symplectic ellipsoids of any dimension, and use these to derive a number of new recursive formula for punctured curve counts in symplectic manifolds with ellipsoidal ends. Along the way we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Grigory Mikhalkin , Kyler Siegel

Let $\Lambda$ be a Legendrian in the jet space of some manifold $X$. To a generating family presentation of $\Lambda$, we associate a constructible sheaf on $X \times \mathbb{R}$ whose singular support at infinity is $\Lambda$, and such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Vivek Shende

This article introduces a new method to construct volume-filling symplectic embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids by employing polytope mutations in toric and almost-toric varieties. The construction uniformly recovers the full sequences…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Roger Casals , Renato Vianna

In this work we bring together tools and ideology from two different fields, Symplectic Geometry and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, to arrive at some new results. Our main result is a dimension-independent bound for the symplectic capacity…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Vitali D. Milman , Yaron Ostrover

Dynamics of a charged particle in the canonical coordinates is a Hamiltonian system, and the well-known symplectic algorithm has been regarded as the de facto method for numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems due to its long-term…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Yifa Tang , Jian Liu , Yang He , Jianyuan Xiao

In previous work, the second author and M\"uller determined the function $c(a)$ giving the smallest dilate of the polydisc $P(1,1)$ into which the ellipsoid $E(1,a)$ symplectically embeds. We determine the function of two variables $c_b(a)$…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner , David Frenkel , Felix Schlenk

We establish computational results concerning the Lagrangian capacity from "Cieliebak and Mohnke - Punctured holomorphic curves and Lagrangian embeddings". More precisely, we show that the Lagrangian capacity of a 4-dimensional convex toric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Miguel Pereira

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

It is a long-standing conjecture that all symplectic capacities which are equal to the Gromov width for ellipsoids coincide on a class of convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$. It is known that they coincide for monotone toric domains in all…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Jean Gutt , Vinicius G. B. Ramos

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 use explicit pseudoholomorphic curve techniques (without virtual perturbations) to define a sequence of symplectic capacities analogous to those defined recently by the second named author using symplectic field theory. We then compute…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Dusa McDuff , Kyler Siegel

Previously, Cristofaro-Gardiner, Hutchings and Ramos have proved that embedded contact homology (ECH) capacities can recover the volume of a contact 3-manifod in their paper "the asymptotics of ECH capacities" . There were two main steps to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Weifeng Sun

We adapt the notion of generating functions for lagrangian submanifolds to symplectic microgeometry. We show that a symplectic micromorphism always admits a global generating function. As an application, we describe hamiltonian flows as…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Benoit Dherin , Alan Weinstein

Polygons are described as almost-convex if their perimeter differs from the perimeter of their minimum bounding rectangle by twice their `concavity index', $m$. Such polygons are called \emph{$m$-convex} polygons and are characterised by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 W. R. G. James , I. Jensen , A. J. Guttmann