Four-periodic infinite staircases for four-dimensional polydisks

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Autores principales: Farley, Caden, Holm, Tara, Magill, Nicki, Schroder, Jemma, Weiler, Morgan, Wang, Zichen, Zabelina, Elizaveta
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author Farley, Caden
Holm, Tara
Magill, Nicki
Schroder, Jemma
Weiler, Morgan
Wang, Zichen
Zabelina, Elizaveta
author_facet Farley, Caden
Holm, Tara
Magill, Nicki
Schroder, Jemma
Weiler, Morgan
Wang, Zichen
Zabelina, Elizaveta
contents The ellipsoid embedding function of a symplectic four-manifold measures the amount by which its symplectic form must be scaled in order for it to admit an embedding of an ellipsoid of varying eccentricity. This function generalizes the Gromov width and ball packing numbers. In the one continuous family of symplectic four-manifolds that has been analyzed, one-point blowups of the complex projective plane, there is an open dense set of symplectic forms whose ellipsoid embedding functions are completely described by finitely many obstructions, while there is simultaneously a Cantor set of symplectic forms for which an infinite number of obstructions are needed. In the latter case, we say that the embedding function has an infinite staircase. In this paper we identify a new infinite staircase when the target is a four-dimensional polydisk, extending a countable family identified by Usher in 2019. Our work computes the function on infinitely many intervals and thereby indicates a method of proof for a conjecture of Usher.
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spellingShingle Four-periodic infinite staircases for four-dimensional polydisks
Farley, Caden
Holm, Tara
Magill, Nicki
Schroder, Jemma
Weiler, Morgan
Wang, Zichen
Zabelina, Elizaveta
Symplectic Geometry
53D05, 53D35, 11A55, 53D42, 53-04
The ellipsoid embedding function of a symplectic four-manifold measures the amount by which its symplectic form must be scaled in order for it to admit an embedding of an ellipsoid of varying eccentricity. This function generalizes the Gromov width and ball packing numbers. In the one continuous family of symplectic four-manifolds that has been analyzed, one-point blowups of the complex projective plane, there is an open dense set of symplectic forms whose ellipsoid embedding functions are completely described by finitely many obstructions, while there is simultaneously a Cantor set of symplectic forms for which an infinite number of obstructions are needed. In the latter case, we say that the embedding function has an infinite staircase. In this paper we identify a new infinite staircase when the target is a four-dimensional polydisk, extending a countable family identified by Usher in 2019. Our work computes the function on infinitely many intervals and thereby indicates a method of proof for a conjecture of Usher.
title Four-periodic infinite staircases for four-dimensional polydisks
topic Symplectic Geometry
53D05, 53D35, 11A55, 53D42, 53-04
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15069