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Lagrangian configurations and Hamiltonian maps

Symplectic Geometry 2023-02-07 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

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 two-sphere equipped with Hofer's metric, prove constraints on Lagrangian packing, find instances of Lagrangian Poincar\'{e} recurrence, and present a new hierarchy of normal subgroups of area-preserving homeomorphisms of the two-sphere. The technology involves Lagrangian spectral invariants with Hamiltonian term in symmetric product orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06118,
  title  = {Lagrangian configurations and Hamiltonian maps},
  author = {Leonid Polterovich and Egor Shelukhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06118},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

47 pages; moderate revision, added Corollary 1, Definition 11, and Proposition 13

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