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A Symplectically Non-Squeezable Small Set and the Regular Coisotropic Capacity

Symplectic Geometry 2012-09-04 v4 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that for n2n\geq2 there exists a compact subset XX of the closed ball in R2nR^{2n} of radius 2\sqrt{2}, such that XX has Hausdorff dimension nn and does not symplectically embed into the standard open symplectic cylinder. The second main result is a lower bound on the dd-th regular coisotropic capacity, which is sharp up to a factor of 3. For an open subset of a geometrically bounded, aspherical symplectic manifold, this capacity is a lower bound on its displacement energy. The proofs of the results involve a certain Lagrangian submanifold of linear space, which was considered by M. Audin and L. Polterovich.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2395,
  title  = {A Symplectically Non-Squeezable Small Set and the Regular Coisotropic Capacity},
  author = {Jan Swoboda and Fabian Ziltener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2395},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

15 pages, v2: added references to articles by H. Geiges and K. Zehmisch, v3: added "for $n\geq2$" in the abstract, v4: streamlined the introduction and simplified the proof of two-dimensional squeezing (Proposition 4)

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