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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

For a compact $(2n+1)$-dimensional smooth manifold, let $\mu_M : B Diff_\partial (D^{2n+1}) \to B Diff (M)$ be the map that is defined by extending diffeomorphisms on an embedded disc by the identity. By a classical result of Farrell and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Johannes Ebert

We prove that for any compact toric symplectic manifold, if a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism admits more fixed points, counted homologically, than the total Betti number, then it has infinitely many simple periodic points. This provides a vast…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Shaoyun Bai , Guangbo Xu

In this paper, we focus on Hamilton's pinching conjecture formulated in Hamilton's paper "Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature". Let $(M, g)$ be a complete, connected, noncompact Riemannian $3$-manifold satisfying the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Luca Benatti , Ariadna León Quirós , Francesca Oronzio , Alessandra Pluda

We show that the (topological) full group of a minimal pseudogroup over the Cantor set satisfies various rigidity phenomena of topological dynamical and combinatorial nature. Our main result applies to its possible homomorphisms into other…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Nicolás Matte Bon

Hamilton's pinching conjecture, that three-dimensional complete non-compact manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature are flat, has recently been resolved using Ricci flow. In this paper we prove a direct analogue of that result in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alix Deruelle , Man-Chun Lee , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

The convexity theorem of Atiyah and Guillemin-Sternberg says that any connected compact manifold with Hamiltonian torus action has a moment map whose image is the convex hull of the image of the fixed point set. Sjamaar-Lerman proved that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bong H. Lian , Bailin Song

We prove that in dimensions not equal to 4, 5, or 7, the homology and homotopy groups of the classifying space of the topological group of diffeomorphisms of a disk fixing the boundary are finitely generated in each degree. The proof uses…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Alexander Kupers

We show that any collection of n-dimensional orbifolds with sectional curvature and volume uniformly bounded below, diameter bounded above, and with only isolated singular points contains orbifolds of only finitely many orbifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-15 Emily Proctor

A celebrated theorem in two-dimensional dynamics due to John Franks asserts that every area preserving homeomorphism of the sphere has either two or infinitely many periodic points. In this work we reprove Franks' theorem under the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Brian Collier , Ely Kerman , Benjamin M. Reiniger , Bolor Turmunkh , Andrew Zimmer

We prove the Conley conjecture for a closed symplectically aspherical symplectic manifold: a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a such a manifold has infinitely many periodic points. More precisely, we show that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism with…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-23 Viktor L. Ginzburg

In this paper, we give the full proof of a conjecture of R.Hamilton that for $(M^3, g)$ being a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with bounded curvature and with the Ricci pinching condition $Rc\geq \ep R g$, where $R>0$ is the positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Li Ma

The Arnold conjecture states that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a closed and connected symplectic manifold must have at least as many fixed points as the minimal number of critical points of a smooth function on the manifold. It is well…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Lev Buhovsky , Vincent Humilière , Sobhan Seyfaddini

We show that there exist infinite-dimensional quasi-flats in the compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group of the Liouville domain, with respect to the spectral norm, if and only if the symplectic cohomology of this Liouville…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Qi Feng , Jun Zhang

Following ideas of Iriyeh and Shibata we give a short proof of the three-dimensional Mahler conjecture {\mf for symmetric convex bodies}. Our contributions include, in particular, simple self-contained proofs of their two key statements.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Matthieu Fradelizi , Alfredo Hubard , Mathieu Meyer , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado , Artem Zvavitch

We prove that the group $\mathrm{SAut}_{\mathrm{k}}(\mathbb{A}^2)$ is simple as an algebraic group of infinite dimension, over any infinite field $\mathrm{k}$, by proving that any closed normal subgroup is either trivial or the whole group.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-27 JérŔemy Blanc

An area-preserving homeomorphism isotopic to the identity is said to have rational rotation direction if its rotation vector is a real multiple of a rational class. We give a short proof that any area-preserving homeomorphism of a compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Rohil Prasad

In this paper, the Conley conjecture, which were recently proved by Franks and Handel \cite{FrHa} (for surfaces of positive genus), Hingston \cite{Hi} (for tori) and Ginzburg \cite{Gi} (for closed symplectically aspherical manifolds), is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-30 Guangcun Lu

Hadwiger's covering conjecture is that every $n$-dimensional convex body can be covered by at most $2^n$ of its smaller positive homothetic copies, with $2^n$ copies required only for affine images of $n$-cube. Convex hull of a ball and an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Andrii Arman , Jaskaran Singh Kaire , Andriy Prymak

We study configurations of disjoint Lagrangian submanifolds in certain low-dimensional symplectic manifolds from the perspective of the geometry of Hamiltonian maps. We detect infinite-dimensional flats in the Hamiltonian group of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Leonid Polterovich , Egor Shelukhin