TY - JOUR
T1 - Selective symplectic homology with applications to contact non-squeezing
AU - Uljarević, Igor
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PY - 2023/9/18
Y1 - 2023/9/18
N2 - We prove a contact non-squeezing phenomenon on homotopy spheres that are fillable by Liouville domains with large symplectic homology: there exists a smoothly embedded ball in such a sphere that cannot be made arbitrarily small by a contact isotopy. These homotopy spheres include examples that are diffeomorphic to standard spheres and whose contact structures are homotopic to standard contact structures. As the main tool, we construct a new version of symplectic homology, called selective symplectic homology, that is associated to a Liouville domain and an open subset of its boundary. The selective symplectic homology is obtained as the direct limit of Floer homology groups for Hamiltonians whose slopes tend to on the open subset but remain close to and positive on the rest of the boundary.
AB - We prove a contact non-squeezing phenomenon on homotopy spheres that are fillable by Liouville domains with large symplectic homology: there exists a smoothly embedded ball in such a sphere that cannot be made arbitrarily small by a contact isotopy. These homotopy spheres include examples that are diffeomorphic to standard spheres and whose contact structures are homotopic to standard contact structures. As the main tool, we construct a new version of symplectic homology, called selective symplectic homology, that is associated to a Liouville domain and an open subset of its boundary. The selective symplectic homology is obtained as the direct limit of Floer homology groups for Hamiltonians whose slopes tend to on the open subset but remain close to and positive on the rest of the boundary.
KW - contact Floer homology
KW - contact non-squeezing
KW - symplectic homology
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U2 - 10.1112/S0010437X23007480
DO - 10.1112/S0010437X23007480
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AN - SCOPUS:85172894881
SN - 0010-437X
VL - 159
SP - 2458
EP - 2482
JO - Compositio Mathematica
JF - Compositio Mathematica
IS - 11
ER -