Geometry/topology Seminar
Monday, April 15, 2019, 3:15pm, 119 Physics
Julian Chaidez (UC Berkeley)
Essential tori In spaces of symplectic embeddings

Abstract:

The problem of when and how one symplectic manifold can be symplectically embedded into another is notoriously subtle, even when the spaces in question are relatively simple. Gromov's non-squeezing theorem and McDuff's Fibonacci staircase are examples of this phenomenon. One can interpret these results as realizing the principle that "variations of quantitative symplectic parameters alter the topology of symplectic embedding spaces." In this talk, we explain recent work (joint with Mihai Munteanu) showing that certain n-torus families of symplectic embeddings between 2n-d ellipsoids become homologically essential if certain quantitative invariants are close enough. We will also discuss work in progress in which we use similar methods to study Lagrangian embeddings. [video]

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