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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826303403321

Autore

Schlenk Felix <1970->

Titolo

Embedding problems in symplectic geometry / / by Felix Schlenk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2005

ISBN

1-282-19481-X

9786612194818

3-11-915917-4

3-11-019969-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter expositions in mathematics ; ; 40

Disciplina

516.3/6

Soggetti

Symplectic geometry

Embeddings (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Proof of Theorem 1 -- Proof of Theorem 2 -- Multiple symplectic folding in four dimensions -- Symplectic folding in higher dimensions -- Proof of Theorem 3 -- Symplectic wrapping -- Proof of Theorem 4 -- Packing symplectic manifolds by hand -- Appendix -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Symplectic geometry is the geometry underlying Hamiltonian dynamics, and symplectic mappings arise as time-1-maps of Hamiltonian flows. The spectacular rigidity phenomena for symplectic mappings discovered in the last two decades show that certain things cannot be done by a symplectic mapping. For instance, Gromov's famous ""non-squeezing'' theorem states that one cannot map a ball into a thinner cylinder by a symplectic embedding. The aim of this book is to show that certain other things can be done by symplectic mappings. This is achieved by various elementary and explicit symplectic embedding.