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On the stabilized symplectic embedding problem for ellipsoids

Symplectic Geometry 2018-11-28 v3

Abstract

This note constructs sharp obstructions for stabilized symplectic embeddings of an ellipsoid into a ball, in the case when the initial four-dimensional ellipsoid has `eccentricity' of the form 3n-1 for some integer n.

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@article{arxiv.1703.07838,
  title  = {On the stabilized symplectic embedding problem for ellipsoids},
  author = {Dusa McDuff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07838},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages; 2 figures, v3 corrects some examples (after publication)

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