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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

In this work we bring together tools and ideology from two different fields, Symplectic Geometry and Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, to arrive at some new results. Our main result is a dimension-independent bound for the symplectic capacity…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Vitali D. Milman , Yaron Ostrover

We study symplectic structures on four-dimensional small covers. Our main result shows that every symplectic four-dimensional small cover is aspherical. We then classify symplectic small covers over products of two polygons, proving that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Suyoung Choi

In this work, we explore the implications of applying the formalism of symplectic geometry to quantum mechanics, particularly focusing on many-particle systems. We extend the concept of a symplectic indicator of entanglement, originally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Piotr Dulian , Adam Sawicki

Let $X$ be a geodesic metric space with $H_1(X)$ uniformly generated. If $X$ has asymptotic dimension one then $X$ is quasi-isometric to an unbounded tree. As a corollary, we show that the asymptotic dimension of the curve graph of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Koji Fujiwara , Kevin Whyte

In this paper, we prove that if the area functional of a surface $\Sigma^2$ in a symplectic manifold $(M^{2n},\bar{\omega})$ has a critical point or has a compatible stable point in the same cohomology class, then it must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Claudio Arezzo , Jun Sun

We introduce the notion of a symplectic capacity relative to a coisotropic submanifold of a symplectic manifold, and we construct two examples of such capacities through modifications of the Hofer-Zehnder capacity. As a consequence, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Samuel Lisi , Antonio Rieser

We prove that the space of symplectic embeddings of $n\geq 1$ standard balls into the standard complex projective plane $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$ is homotopy equivalent to the configuration space of $n$ points in $\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}^2$,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Sílvia Anjos , Jarek Kędra , Martin Pinsonnault

Let $\Sigma_g$ be a closed oriented surface of genus g and let $H_\mathbb{Q}$ denote $H_1(\Sigma_g;\mathbb{Q})$ which we understand to be the standard symplectic vector space over $\mathbb{Q}$ of dimension $2g$. We introduce a canonical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Shigeyuki Morita

We prove that all hierarchically hyperbolic spaces have finite asymptotic dimension and obtain strong bounds on these dimensions. One application of this result is to obtain the sharpest known bound on the asymptotic dimension of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen , Alessandro Sisto

In this paper we introduce the notion of relative Kodaira dimension for a symplectic 4-manifold M with a possibly disconnected embedded symplectic surface F. One notable feature is that the sphere components of F have to be discarded, which…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-29 Tian-Jun Li , Weiyi Zhang

To every closed subset $X$ of a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ we associate a natural group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms $Ham(X,\omega)$. We equip this group with a semi-norm $\Vert\cdot\Vert^{X,\omega}$, generalizing the Hofer norm. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-25 Jan Swoboda , Fabian Ziltener

We investigate spaces of symplectic embeddings of $n\leq 4$ balls into the complex projective plane. We prove that they are homotopy equivalent to explicitly described algebraic subspaces of the configuration spaces of $n$ points. We…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Sílvia Anjos , Jarek Kędra , Martin Pinsonnault

In this paper we will explore fundamental constraints on the evolution of certain symplectic subvolumes possessed by any Hamiltonian phase space. This research has direct application to optimal control and control of conservative mechanical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Jared M. Maruskin , Daniel J. Scheeres , Anthony M. Bloch

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 find an upper bound for the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic metric space with a set of geodesics satisfying a certain boundedness condition studied by Bowditch. The primary example is a collection of tight geodesics on the curve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gregory Bell , Koji Fujiwara

The symplectic isotopy conjecture states that every smooth symplectic surface in $CP^2$ is symplectically isotopic to a complex algebraic curve. Progress began with Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves [Gro85], and progressed further…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Laura Starkston

We present an alternative proof of the Coisotropic Embedding Theorem in which the geometric choice of a connection is recast as the algebraic choice of an embedding into the cotangent bundle. The symplectic thickening is then identified as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Luca Schiavone

In any dimension $2n \ge 6$ we show that certain spaces of symplectic embeddings of a polydisk into a product $B^4 \times \Bbb R^{2(n-2)}$ of a $4$-ball and Euclidean space, are not path connected. We also show that any pair of such…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Richard Hind

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