Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains

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Main Authors: Cristofaro-Gardiner, Dan, Magill, Nicki, McDuff, Dusa
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author Cristofaro-Gardiner, Dan
Magill, Nicki
McDuff, Dusa
author_facet Cristofaro-Gardiner, Dan
Magill, Nicki
McDuff, Dusa
contents We study the related notions of curvature and perimeter for toric boundaries and their implications for symplectic packing problems; a natural setting for this is a generalized version of convex toric domain which we also study, where there are no conditions on the moment polytope at all aside from convexity. We show that the subleading asymptotics of the ECH and elementary ECH capacities recover the perimeter of such domains in their liminf, without any genericity required, and hence the perimeter is an obstruction to a full filling. As an application, we give the first examples of the failure of packing stability by open subsets of compact manifolds with smooth boundary or with no boundary at all; this has implications for long-term super-recurrence. We also show that a single smooth point of positive curvature on the toric boundary obstructs the existence of an infinite staircase, and we build on this to completely classify smooth (generalized) convex toric domains which have an infinite staircase. We also extend a number of theorems to generalized convex toric domains, in particular the "concave to convex", embedding theorem and the "accumulation point theorem". A curvy point forces "infinite complexity"; we raise the question of whether an infinitely complex domain can ever have an infinite staircase and we give examples with infinite staircases and arbitrarily high finite complexity.
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spellingShingle Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
Cristofaro-Gardiner, Dan
Magill, Nicki
McDuff, Dusa
Symplectic Geometry
53D05
We study the related notions of curvature and perimeter for toric boundaries and their implications for symplectic packing problems; a natural setting for this is a generalized version of convex toric domain which we also study, where there are no conditions on the moment polytope at all aside from convexity. We show that the subleading asymptotics of the ECH and elementary ECH capacities recover the perimeter of such domains in their liminf, without any genericity required, and hence the perimeter is an obstruction to a full filling. As an application, we give the first examples of the failure of packing stability by open subsets of compact manifolds with smooth boundary or with no boundary at all; this has implications for long-term super-recurrence. We also show that a single smooth point of positive curvature on the toric boundary obstructs the existence of an infinite staircase, and we build on this to completely classify smooth (generalized) convex toric domains which have an infinite staircase. We also extend a number of theorems to generalized convex toric domains, in particular the "concave to convex", embedding theorem and the "accumulation point theorem". A curvy point forces "infinite complexity"; we raise the question of whether an infinitely complex domain can ever have an infinite staircase and we give examples with infinite staircases and arbitrarily high finite complexity.
title Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
topic Symplectic Geometry
53D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23498