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We show that if (M,\omega) is a closed symplectic manifold which admits a nontrivial Hamiltonian vector field all of whose contractible closed orbits are constant, then Hofer's metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Michael Usher

In this paper we consider a geometric variant of Hofer's symplectic energy, which was first considered by Eliashberg and Hofer in connection with their study of the extent to which the interior of a region in a symplectic manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 François Lalonde , Dusa McDuff

We prove a H\"older-type inequality for the Hausdorff distance between Lagrangians with respect to the Lagrangian spectral distance or the Hofer-Chekanov distance in the spirit of Joksimovi\'c-Seyfaddini [arXiv:2207.11813]. This inequality…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Jean-Philippe Chassé , Rémi Leclercq

We prove that the homotopic distance between two maps defined on a manifold is bounded above by the sum of their subspace distances on the critical submanifol of any Morse-Bott function. This generalizes the Lusternik-Schnirelmann theorem…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-28 E. Macías-Virgós , D. Mosquera-Lois , M. J. Pereira-Sáez

We consider sequences of compact Riemannian manifolds with uniform Sobolev bounds on their metric tensors, and prove that their distance functions are uniformly bounded in the H\"{o}lder sense. This is done by establishing a general trace…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Brian Allen , Edward Bryden

On any closed symplectic manifold we construct a path-connected neighborhood of the identity in the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group with the property that each Hamiltonian diffeomorphism in this neighborhood admits a Hofer and spectral…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Peter Spaeth

The paper is concerned with the properties of the distance function from a closed subset of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the set of singularities.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Carlo Mantegazza , Andrea Carlo Mennucci

The Hofer-Zehnder theorem states that almost every hypersurface in a thickening of a hypersurface $S$ in a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ carries a closed characteristic provided that $S$ bounds a compact submanifold and $(M,\omega)$ has…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Macarini , Felix Schlenk

In this article we prove that for a smooth fiberwise convex Hamiltonian, the asymptotic Hofer distance from the identity gives a strict upper bound to the value at 0 of Mather's $\beta$ function, thus providing a negative answer to a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Alfonso Sorrentino , Claude Viterbo

This paper establishes robust obstructions to representing Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms as $k$-th powers ($k \geq 2$) or embedding them in flows for certain higher-dimensional symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$, including surface bundles. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Zhijing Wendy Wang

We prove a coisotropic intersection result and deduce the following: 1. Lower bounds on the displacement energy of a subset of a symplectic manifold, in particular a sharp stable energy-Gromov-width inequality. 2. A stable non-squeezing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Jan Swoboda , Fabian Ziltener

We exhibit many examples of closed symplectic manifolds on which there is an autonomous Hamiltonian whose associated flow has no nonconstant periodic orbits (the only previous explicit example in the literature was the torus T^2n (n\geq 2)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Michael Usher

We study lower semi-continuity properties of the volume, i.e., the surface area, of a closed Lagrangian manifold with respect to the Hofer- and $\gamma$-distance on a class of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds Hamiltonian isotopic to each…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel

We assign to each nondegenerate Hamiltonian on a closed symplectic manifold a Floer-theoretic quantity called its "boundary depth," and establish basic results about how the boundary depths of different Hamiltonians are related. As…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Michael Usher

Let $(M,\omega)$ be a symplectic manifold and $U\subseteq M$ an open subset. We study the natural inclusion of the compactly supported Hamiltonian group of $U$ in the compactly supported Hamiltonian group of $M$. The main result is an upper…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Michael Khanevsky , Fabian Ziltener

In this paper we first show that the necessary condition introduced in our previous paper is also a sufficient condition for a path to be a geodesic in the group $\Ham^c(M)$ of compactly supported Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-26 François Lalonde , Dusa McDuff

Following a question of F. Le Roux, we consider a system of invariants $l_A : H_1(M; \mathbb{Z})\to\mathbb{R}$ of a symplectic surface $M$. These invariants compute the minimal Hofer energy needed to translate a disk of area $A$ along a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Michael Khanevsky

In this paper we consider the Arnold conjecture on the Lagrangian intersections of some closed Lagrangian submanifold of a closed symplectic manifold with its image of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism. We prove that if the Hofer's symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chun-gen Liu

We study the computational complexity of determining the Hausdorff distance of two polytopes given in halfspace- or vertex-presentation in arbitrary dimension. Subsequently, a matching problem is investigated where a convex body is allowed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Stefan König

We show that Banyaga's Hofer-like norm, a generalization of the Hofer norm coincides with the classical Hofer norm when restricted to Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on compact symplectic manifolds. This result proves a conjecture of Banyaga…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Stéphane Tchuiaga