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This book offers an introduction to Hofer's metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. It presents results on the diameter, geodesics, and the growth of one-parameter subgroups, along with applications to dynamics and ergodic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Leonid Polterovich

We construct an explicit diffeomorphism taking any fibration of a sphere by great circles into the Hopf fibration, using elementary geometry--indeed the diffeomorphism is a local (differential) invariant, algebraic in derivatives.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Benjamin McKay

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

We consider general Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms on a closed orientable two-dimentional surface. In this paper it is proved that the complete topological invariant of Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms is finite, the algorithm of the construction…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Vlasenko

Let L denote the space of Lagrangians Hamiltonian isotopic to the standard Lagrangian in the unit ball in Euclidean space. We prove that the Lagrangian Hofer distance on L is unbounded.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Sobhan Seyfaddini

A group is said to be bounded if it has a finite diameter with respect to any bi-invariant metric. In the present paper we discuss boundedness of various groups of diffeomorphisms.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-01 D. Burago , S. Ivanov , L. Polterovich

In a recent paper we defined a new filtration of the mapping class group--the "Lagrangian" filtration. We here determine the successive quotients of this filtration, up to finite index. As an application we show that, for any additive…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jerome Levine

We prove that there are only finitely many isoparametrically foliated closed connected Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry, fixed dimension $n\neq5$, and finite fundamental group, up to foliated diffeomorphism. In addition, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Manuel Krannich , Alexander Lytchak , Marco Radeschi

Let $L_0,L_1,L_2 \subset M$ be exact Lagrangian spheres in a Liouville domain $M$ with $2c_1(M)=0$. If $L_0,L_1,L_2$ form an $A_3$-configuration, we show that $\mathscr{L}(L_0)$ and $\mathscr{L}(L_2)$ endowed with the Hofer metric contain…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Adrian Dawid

It has been proved by S.L.Ziglin, for a large class of 2-degree-of-freedom (d.o.f) Hamiltonian systems, that transverse intersections of the invariant manifolds of saddle fixed points imply infinite branching of solutions in the complex…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassilios M. Rothos , Tassos C. Bountis

Let $D^2$ be the open unit disc in the Euclidean plane and let $G:= Diff(D2; area)$ be the group of smooth compactly supported area-preserving diffeomorphisms of $D^2$. We investigate the properties of G endowed with the autonomous metric.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Michael Brandenbursky , Jarek Kedra

For a large class of toric domains in $\mathbb{R}^4$ we determine which product Lagrangian tori can be mapped into the domain by a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism. In other words, we compute the Hamiltonian shape invariant of these toric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Richard Hind , Ely Kerman

The $\pi_2$-diffeomorphism finiteness result (\cite{FR1,2}, \cite{PT}) asserts that the diffeomorphic types of compact $n$-manifolds $M$ with vanishing first and second homotopy groups can be bounded above in terms of $n$, and upper bounds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Xiaochun Rong , Xuchao Yao

We prove that compact complex manifolds bearing a holomorphic Riemannian metric have infinite fundamental group.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Indranil Biswas , Sorin Dumitrescu

We study collections of exact Lagrangian submanifolds respecting some uniform Riemannian bounds, which we equip with a metric naturally arising in symplectic topology (e.g. the Lagrangian Hofer metric or the spectral metric). We exhibit…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Jean-Philippe Chassé

We prove that the vector space R^d of any finite dimension d with the standard metric embeds in a bi-Lipschitz way into the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms G of the two-sphere endowed with the L^p-metric for p>2. Along the way we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Michael Brandenbursky , Egor Shelukhin

We prove that the fundamental group of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the symplectic manifold that is obtain by blowing up a submanifold contains an element of infinite order. We prove this using Weinstein's morphism and by…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Andrés Pedroza

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

Link spectral invariants were introduced by Cristofaro-Gardiner, Humili\`ere, Mak, Seyfaddini, and Smith. They induce Hofer-Lipschitz quasimorphisms on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the two-dimensional sphere. We prove that…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Baptiste Serraille , Ibrahim Trifa

We prove several generic existence results for infinitely many periodic orbits of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms or Reeb flows. For instance, we show that a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of a complex projective space or Grassmannian generically…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel