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As has been known since the time of Gromov's Nonsqueezing Theorem, symplectic embedding questions lie at the heart of symplectic geometry. After surveying some of the most important ways of measuring the size of a symplectic set, these…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-14 Dusa McDuff

We construct symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids of dimension $2n \ge 6$ into the product of a 4-ball or 4-dimensional cube with Euclidean space. A sequence of these embeddings can be shown to be optimal.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Richard Hind

We obtain new sharp obstructions to symplectic embeddings of four-dimensional polydisks $P(a,1)$ into four-dimensional ellipsoids $E(bc,c)$ when $1\le a< 2$ and $b$ is a half-integer. When $1 \leq a < 2-O(b^{-1})$ we demonstrate that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Leo Digiosia , Jo Nelson , Haoming Ning , Morgan Weiler , Yirong Yang

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

In a series of work [Wor22], [Wor21] and [CW20], algebraic capacities were introduced in an algebraic manner for polarized algebraic surfaces and applied to the symplectic embedding problems. In this paper, we give a reformulation of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Tian-Jun Li , Shengzhen Ning

In this note we show that one open four dimensional ellipsoid embeds symplectically into another if and only the ECH capacities of the first are no larger than those of the second. This proves a conjecture due to Hofer. The argument uses…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Dusa McDuff

Given a symplectic manifold, we ask in how many different ways can a torus act on it. Classification theorems in equivariant symplectic geometry can sometimes tell that two Hamiltonian torus actions are inequivalent, but often they do not…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Yael Karshon , Liat Kessler , Martin Pinsonnault

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

The Rotating Kepler Problem (RKP) arises as a fundamental model in celestial mechanics, appearing as a limiting case of the circular restricted three-body problem. It offers a tractable yet rich framework for studying periodic orbits,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Amin Mohebbi

Given a closed symplectic manifold, we construct invariants which count (a) closed rational pseudoholomorphic curves with prescribed cusp singularities and (b) punctured rational pseudoholomorphic curves with ellipsoidal negative ends. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Dusa McDuff , Kyler Siegel

We investigate the convexity up to symplectomorphism (called symplectic convexity) of star-shaped toric domains in $\mathbb R^4$. In particular, based on the criterion from Chaidez-Edtmair via Ruelle invariant and systolic ratio of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Julien Dardennes , Jean Gutt , Jun Zhang

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 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

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 establish computational results concerning the Lagrangian capacity, originally defined by Cieliebak-Mohnke. More precisely, we show that the Lagrangian capacity of a 4-dimensional convex toric domain is equal to its diagonal. Working…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Miguel Pereira

In this paper, we compute the embedded contact homology (ECH) capacities of the disk cotangent bundles $D^*S^2$ and $D^*\mathbb{R} P^2$. We also find sharp symplectic embeddings into these domains. In particular, we compute their Gromov…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Brayan Ferreira , Vinicius G. B. Ramos

In determining when a four-dimensional ellipsoid can be symplectically embedded into a ball, McDuff and Schlenk found an infinite sequence of "ghost" obstructions that generate an infinite "ghost staircase" determined by the even index…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Richard Hind , Dusa McDuff

In this note we establish the existence of a new type of rigidity of symplectic embeddings coming from obligatory intersections with symplectic planes. More precisely, we prove that if a Euclidean ball is symplectically embedded in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Pazit Haim-Kislev , Richard Hind , Yaron Ostrover

This paper calculates the function $c(a)$ whose value at $a$ is the infimum of the size of a ball that contains a symplectic image of the ellipsoid $E(1,a)$. (Here $a \ge 1$ is the ratio of the area of the large axis to that of the smaller…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-31 Dusa McDuff , Felix Schlenk

We show how to reduce the problem of symplectically embedding one 4-dimensional rational ellipsoid into another to a problem of embedding disjoint unions of balls into appropriate blow ups of \C P^2. For example, the problem of embedding…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Dusa McDuff