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A conjecture is made as to how to quantize topological M theory. We study a Hamiltonian decomposition of Hitchin's 7-dimensional action and propose a formulation for it in terms of 13 first class constraints. The theory has 2 degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lee Smolin

Invariants for Riemann surfaces covered by the disc and for hyperbolic manifolds in general involving minimizing the measure of the image over the homotopy and homology classes of closed curves and maps of the $k$-sphere into the manifold…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Robert E. Greene , Kang-Tae Kim , Nikolay V. Shcherbina

We prove dynamical stability and instability theorems for compact Einstein metrics under the Ricci flow. We give a nearly complete charactarization of dynamical stability and instability in terms of the conformal Yamabe invariant and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Klaus Kroencke

A fundamental result of Banyaga states that the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of a closed symplectic manifold is perfect. We refine this result by proving that, locally in the $C^\infty$ topology, the number of commutators needed to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Oliver Edtmair

In 2002 Polterovich has notably established that on closed aspherical symplectic manifolds, Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of finite order, which we call Hamiltonian torsion, must in fact be trivial. In this paper we prove the first…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Marcelo S. Atallah , Egor Shelukhin

Let $\Lambda$ be a compact locally maximal invariant set of a $C^2$-diffeomorphism $f:M\to M$ on a smooth Riemannian manifold $M$. In this paper we study the topological pressure $P_{\rm top}(\phi)$ (with respect to the dynamical system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Katrin Gelfert , Christian Wolf

In this paper, we prove that if a continuous Hamiltonian flow fixes the points in an open subset $U$ of a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, then its associated Hamiltonian is constant at each moment on $U$. As a corollary, we prove that the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-09 Yong-Geun Oh

We investigate the class of compact complex Hermitian-symplectic manifolds $X$. For each Hermitian-symplectic metric $\omega$ on $X$, we introduce a functional acting on the metrics in the Aeppli cohomology class of $\omega$ and prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Sławomir Dinew , Dan Popovici

Here we prove that for each Hamiltonian function $H\in \mathcal{C}^\infty(\mathbb{R}^4, \mathbb{R})$ defined on the standard symplectic $(\mathbb{R}^4, \omega_0)$, for which $M:=H^{-1}(0)$ is a non-empty compact regular energy level, the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Joel W. Fish , Helmut Hofer

On symplectic manifolds, we introduce a Morse-type complex with elements generated by pairs of critical points of a Morse function. The differential of the complex consists of gradient flows and an integration of the symplectic structure…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-25 David Clausen , Xiang Tang , Li-Sheng Tseng

Classical mechanical systems are modeled by a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, and their symmetries, encoded in the action of a Lie group $G$ on $M$ by diffeomorphisms that preserves $\omega$. These actions, which are called "symplectic",…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Álvaro Pelayo

The main purpose of this paper is to study the length minimizing property of Hamiltonian paths on closed symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$ such that there are no spherical homology class $A \in H_2(M)$ with $$ \omega(A) > 0 \quad \text{and}…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yong-Geun Oh

In the spirit of recent work of Harada-Kaveh and Nishinou-Nohara-Ueda, we study the symplectic geometry of Popov's horospherical degenerations of complex algebraic varieties with the action of a complex linearly reductive group. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Joachim Hilgert , Christopher Manon , Johan Martens

We show that if K: P \to R is an autonomous Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold (P,\Omega) which attains 0 as a Morse-Bott nondegenerate minimum along a symplectic submanifold M, and if c_1(TP)|_M vanishes in real cohomology, then the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-27 Michael Usher

Let M be a closed symplectic manifold, and let | | be a norm on the space of all smooth functions on M, which are zero-mean normalized with respect to the canonical volume form. We show that if | | is dominated from above by the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaron Ostrover , Roy Wagner

This paper explains the recent developments on the symplectic theory of Hamiltonian completely integrable systems on symplectic 4-manifolds, compact or not. One fundamental ingredient of these developments has been the understanding of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Álvaro Pelayo , San Vũ Ngoc

In this paper, we apply spectral invariants, constructed in [Oh5,8], to the study of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed symplectic manifolds $(M,\omega)$. Using spectral invariants, we first construct an invariant norm called the {\it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yong-Geun Oh

We prove that a Hamiltonian star system, defined on a 2d-dimensional symplectic manifold M, is Anosov. As a consequence we obtain the proof of the stability conjecture for Hamiltonians. This generalizes the 4-dimensional results in [6].

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-04-16 M. Bessa , M. J. Torres , J. Rocha

We classify the periodic Hamiltonian flows on compact four dimensional symplectic manifolds up to isomorphism of Hamiltonian S^1 spaces. Additionally, we show that all these spaces are Kaehler, that every such space is obtained from a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Yael Karshon

Poincare's invariance principle for Hamiltonian flows implies Kelvin's principle for solution to Incompressible Euler Equation. Iyer-Constantin Circulation Theorem offers a stochastic analog of Kelvin's principle for Navier-Stokes Equation.…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-01 Fraydoun Rezakhanlou