Symplectic capacity and the Weinstein conjecture in certain cotangent bundles and Stein manifolds

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
MA Renyi
Keyword(s):  
Stein Manifolds ◽  
Symplectic Capacity ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Cotangent Bundles

scholarly journals Symplectic cobordisms and the strong Weinstein conjecture

2012 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANSJÖRG GEIGES ◽  
KAI ZEHMISCH
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Quantitative Character ◽  
Contact Manifolds ◽  
Symplectic Capacity ◽  
Contact Type ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Symplectic Cobordisms

AbstractWe study holomorphic spheres in certain symplectic cobordisms and derive information about periodic Reeb orbits in the concave end of these cobordisms from the non-compactness of the relevant moduli spaces. We use this to confirm the strong Weinstein conjecture (predicting the existence of null-homologous Reeb links) for various higher-dimensional contact manifolds, including contact type hypersurfaces in subcritical Stein manifolds and in some cotangent bundles. The quantitative character of this result leads to the definition of a symplectic capacity.

Symplectic capacities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
Weinstein Conjecture ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Hofer Metric

This chapter returns to the problems which were formulated in Chapter 1, namely the Weinstein conjecture, the nonsqueezing theorem, and symplectic rigidity. These questions are all related to the existence and properties of symplectic capacities. The chapter begins by discussing some of the consequences which follow from the existence of capacities. In particular, it establishes symplectic rigidity and discusses the relation between capacities and the Hofer metric on the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms. The chapter then introduces the Hofer–Zehnder capacity, and shows that its existence gives rise to a proof of the Weinstein conjecture for hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. The last section contains a proof that the Hofer–Zehnder capacity satisfies the required axioms. This proof translates the Hofer–Zehnder variational argument into the setting of (finite-dimensional) generating functions.

scholarly journals Infinitely many leaf-wise intersections on cotangent bundles

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Albers ◽  
Urs Frauenfelder
Keyword(s):  
Cotangent Bundles

Discs in hulls of real immersions into Stein manifolds

2017 ◽  
Vol 298 (1) ◽  
pp. 334-344
Author(s):  
Rasul Shafikov ◽  
Alexandre Sukhov
Keyword(s):  
Stein Manifolds

scholarly journals The Lusternik–Fet theorem for autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian systems on twisted cotangent bundles

2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 545-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Asselle ◽  
Gabriele Benedetti
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Hamiltonian Systems ◽  
Symplectic Form ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Closed Manifold ◽  
Hamiltonian Flow ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Almost All

Let [Formula: see text] be a closed manifold and consider the Hamiltonian flow associated to an autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian [Formula: see text] and a twisted symplectic form. In this paper we study the existence of contractible periodic orbits for such a flow. Our main result asserts that if [Formula: see text] is not aspherical, then contractible periodic orbits exist for almost all energies above the maximum critical value of [Formula: see text].

Quantum fluctuations of the metric, three-geometries and conformal embeddings in four-manifolds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Davis
Keyword(s):  
Path Integrals ◽  
Invariance Group ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Exponential Expansion ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Four Manifolds ◽  
Conformal Embeddings ◽  
Natural Relation

In this paper, connections between the path integrals for four-dimensional quantum gravity and string theory are emphasized. It is shown that there is a natural relation between these two path integrals based on the theorems on embeddings of two-dimensional surfaces in four dimensions and four-dimensional manifolds in ten dimensions. The isometry groups of the three-geometries that are spatial hypersurfaces confomally embedded in the four-manifolds are required to be subgroups of [Formula: see text], which is the invariance group of the Pfaffian differential system satisfied by one form in the cotangent bundles on the four-manifolds. Based on this and other physical conditions, the three-geometries are restricted to be [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with a boundary, which may be included in the quantum gravitational path integral over four-manifolds which are closed at initial times followed by an exponential expansion compatible with supersymmetry.

Nef cotangent bundles over line arrangements

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-374
Author(s):  
Michael J. Spurr
Keyword(s):  
Line Arrangements ◽  
Cotangent Bundles

scholarly journals An Application of Spherical Geometry to Hyperkähler Slices

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Peter Crooks ◽  
Maarten van Pruijssen
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Compact Subgroup ◽  
Spherical Geometry ◽  
Spherical Subgroup ◽  
Cotangent Bundles ◽  
Complex Semisimple ◽  
Reductive Subgroup ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

Abstract This work is concerned with Bielawski’s hyperkähler slices in the cotangent bundles of homogeneous affine varieties. One can associate such a slice with the data of a complex semisimple Lie group  $G$ , a reductive subgroup $H\subseteq G$ , and a Slodowy slice $S\subseteq \mathfrak{g}:=\text{Lie}(G)$ , defining it to be the hyperkähler quotient of $T^{\ast }(G/H)\times (G\times S)$ by a maximal compact subgroup of  $G$ . This hyperkähler slice is empty in some of the most elementary cases (e.g., when $S$ is regular and $(G,H)=(\text{SL}_{n+1},\text{GL}_{n})$ , $n\geqslant 3$ ), prompting us to seek necessary and sufficient conditions for non-emptiness. We give a spherical-geometric characterization of the non-empty hyperkähler slices that arise when $S=S_{\text{reg}}$ is a regular Slodowy slice, proving that non-emptiness is equivalent to the so-called $\mathfrak{a}$ -regularity of $(G,H)$ . This $\mathfrak{a}$ -regularity condition is formulated in several equivalent ways, one being a concrete condition on the rank and complexity of $G/H$ . We also provide a classification of the $\mathfrak{a}$ -regular pairs $(G,H)$ in which $H$ is a reductive spherical subgroup. Our arguments make essential use of Knop’s results on moment map images and Losev’s algorithm for computing Cartan spaces.

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