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In this article, we study the Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic manifolds and prove the Arnold conjecture for a large class of $b^m$-symplectic manifolds. Novel techniques are introduced to associate smooth symplectic forms to the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Joaquim Brugués , Eva Miranda , Cédric Oms

We introduce the concept of Hofer-Zehnder $G$-semicapacity (or $G$-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity) and prove that given a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ and an open subset $N \subset M$ endowed with a Hamiltonian…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Macarini

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact surface of genus $g \geq 1$ equipped with an area form. We construct eggbeater Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms which lie arbitrarily far in the Hofer metric from the set of autonomous Hamiltonians. This result is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Michael Khanevsky

We define the symplectic displacement energy of a non-empty subset of a compact symplectic manifold as the infimum of the Hofer-like norm [5] of symplectic diffeomorphisms that displace the set. We show that this energy (like the usual…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Augustin Banyaga , David E. Hurtubise , Peter Spaeth

Given a symplectic toric manifold, the moment maps of sub-circle actions can be modified to be admissible functions in the sense of Hofer-Zehnder. By exploiting the relationship between the period of Hamiltonian sub-circle actions of a…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Yichen Liu

We use the criteria of Lalonde and McDuff to show that a path that is generated by a generic autonomous Hamiltonian is length minimizing with respect to the Hofer norm among all homotopic paths provided that it induces no non-constant…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Dusa McDuff , Jennifer Slimowitz

We define a notion of Hempel distance for one-sided Heegaard splittings and show that the existence of alternate surfaces restricts distance for one-sided splittings in a manner similar to Hartshorn's and Scharlemann-Tomova's results for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Jesse Johnson

We work within the framework of a program aimed at exploring various extended versions for theorems from a class containing Borsuk-Ulam type theorems, some fixed point theorems, the KKM lemma, Radon, Tverberg, and Helly theorems. In this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 A. V. Malyutin , I. M. Shirokov

We construct Hamiltonian Floer complexes associated to continuous, and even lower semi-continuous, time dependent exhaustion functions on geometrically bounded symplectic manifolds. We further construct functorial continuation maps…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Yoel Groman

We use the criteria of Lalonde and McDuff to determine a new class of examples of length minimizing paths in the group $Ham(M)$. For a compact symplectic manifold $M$ of dimension two or four, we show that a path in $Ham(M)$, generated by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jennifer Slimowitz

We show that, on a closed semipositive symplectic manifold with semisimple quantum homology, any Hamiltonian diffeomorphism possessing more contractible fixed points, counted homologically, than the total Betti number of the manifold, must…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Marcelo S. Atallah , Han Lou

We show that both Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and topological complexity are particular cases of a more general notion, that we call homotopic distance between two maps. As a consequence, several properties of those invariants can be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-24 E. Macías-Virgós , D. Mosquera-Lois

We introduce a new variant of quantitative Helly-type theorems: the minimal \emph{"homothetic distance"} of the intersection of a family of convex sets to the intersection of a subfamily of a fixed size. As an application, we establish the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Grigory Ivanov , Márton Naszódi

Starting from a given norm on the vector space of exact 1-forms of a compact symplectic manifold, we produce pseudo-distances on its symplectomorphism group by generalizing an idea due to Banyaga. We prove that in some cases (which include…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-13 Guy Buss , Rémi Leclercq

The special structures that arise in symplectic topology (particularly Gromov--Witten invariants and quantum homology) place as yet rather poorly understood restrictions on the topological properties of symplectomorphism groups. This…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dusa McDuff

In this note we link symplectic and convex geometry by relating two seemingly different open conjectures: a symplectic isoperimetric-type inequality for convex domains, and Mahler's conjecture on the volume product of centrally symmetric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Roman Karasev , Yaron Ostrover

The commutator length of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism $f\in \mathrm{Ham}(M, \omega)$ of a closed symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ is by definition the minimal $k$ such that $f$ can be written as a product of $k$ commutators in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 François Lalonde , Andrei Teleman

This paper defines symplectic scale manifolds based on Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder's scale calculus. We introduce Hamiltonian vector fields and flows on these by narrowing down sc-smoothness to what we denote by strong sc-smoothness, a concept…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-17 João Bernardo Crespo , Oliver Fabert

Hofer's metric is a bi-invariant metric on Hamiltonian diffeomorphism groups. Our main result shows that the topology induced from Hofer's metric is weaker than C^1-topology if the symplectic manifold is closed.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Yoshihiro Sugimoto

We introduce a new type of distinct distances result: a lower bound on the number of distances between points on a line and points on a two-dimensional strip. This can be seen as a generalization of the well-studied problems of distances…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Sanjana Das , Adam Sheffer