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Symplectically knotted codimension-zero embeddings of domains in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$

Authors :
Michael Usher
Jean Gutt
Source :
Duke Math. J. 168, no. 12 (2019), 2299-2363
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Duke University Press, 2019.

Abstract

We show that many toric domains $X$ in $R^4$ admit symplectic embeddings $\phi$ into dilates of themselves which are knotted in the strong sense that there is no symplectomorphism of the target that takes $\phi(X)$ to $X$. For instance $X$ can be taken equal to a polydisk $P(1,1)$, or to any convex toric domain that both is contained in $P(1,1)$ and properly contains a ball $B^4(1)$; by contrast a result of McDuff shows that $B^4(1)$ (or indeed any four-dimensional ellipsoid) cannot have this property. The embeddings are constructed based on recent advances on symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids, though in some cases a more elementary construction is possible. The fact that the embeddings are knotted is proven using filtered positive $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology.<br />Comment: 52 pages, 4 figures

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Duke Math. J. 168, no. 12 (2019), 2299-2363
Accession number :
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