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We present recursive formulas which compute the recently defined "higher symplectic capacities" for all convex toric domains. In the special case of four-dimensional ellipsoids, we apply homological perturbation theory to the associated…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Kyler Siegel

We study invariants coming from certain optimisation problems for nef divisors on surfaces. These optimisation problems arise in work of the author and collaborators tying obstructions to embeddings between symplectic 4-manifolds to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Ben Wormleighton

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

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

We prove packing stability for any closed symplectic manifold with rational cohomology class. This will rely on a general symplectic embedding result for ellipsoids which assumes only that there is no volume obstruction and that the domain…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Olguta Buse , Richard Hind

The third named author has been developing a theory of "higher" symplectic capacities. These capacities are invariant under taking products, and so are well-suited for studying the stabilized embedding problem. The aim of this note is to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Richard Hind , Kyler Siegel

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

Computing embedded contact homology (ECH) and related invariants of certain toric 3-manifolds (in the sense of Lerman) has led to interesting new results in the study of symplectic embeddings. Here, we give a combinatorial formulation of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Keon Choi

We study the related notions of curvature and perimeter for toric boundaries and their implications for symplectic packing problems; a natural setting for this is a generalized version of convex toric domain which we also study, where there…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Nicki Magill , Dusa McDuff

We extend the family of capacities given by McDuff and Siegel by including a constraint $\ell$ on the number of positive asymptotically cylindrical ends of curves showing up in the definition. We prove a generalized computation formula for…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jonathan Michala

Quite recently, McDuff showed that the existence of a symplectic embedding of one four-dimensional ellipsoid into another can be established by comparing their corresponding sequences of ECH capacities. In this note we show that these…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-01 David Bauer

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

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

An influential result of McDuff and Schlenk asserts that the function that encodes when a four-dimensional symplectic ellipsoid can be embedded into a four-dimensional ball has a remarkable structure: the function has infinitely many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Tara S. Holm , Alessia Mandini , Ana Rita Pires

McDuff and Schlenk have recently determined exactly when a four-dimensional symplectic ellipsoid symplectically embeds into a symplectic ball. Similarly, Frenkel and M\"uller have recently determined exactly when a symplectic ellipsoid…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Max Timmons , Priera Panescu , Madeleine Burkhart

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

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 prove that all normalized symplectic capacities coincide on smooth domains in $\mathbb C^n$ which are $C^2$-close to the Euclidean ball, whereas this fails for some smooth domains which are just $C^1$-close to the ball. We also prove…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Alberto Abbondandolo , Gabriele Benedetti , Oliver Edtmair

Consider a symplectic embedding of a disjoint union of domains into a symplectic manifold $M$. Such an embedding is called Kahler-type, or respectively tame, if it is holomorphic with respect to some (not a priori fixed, Kahler-type)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Michael Entov , Misha Verbitsky

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