Hofer-Zehnder semicapacity of cotangent bundles and symplectic submanifolds

dc.creatorMacarini, Leonardo
dc.date2003-03-19
dc.date2003-08-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:56:11Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:56:11Z
dc.descriptionWe introduce the concept of Hofer-Zehnder $G$-semicapacity (or $G$-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity) and prove that given a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold $(M,ω)$ and an open subset $N \subset M$ endowed with a Hamiltonian free circle action $ϕ$ then $N$ has bounded Hofer-Zehnder $G_ϕ$-semicapacity, where $G_ϕ\subset π_1(N)$ is the subgroup generated by the homotopy class of the orbits of $ϕ$. In particular, $N$ has bounded Hofer-Zehnder capacity. We give two types of applications of the main result. Firstly, we prove that the cotangent bundle of a compact manifold endowed with a free circle action has bounded Hofer-Zehnder capacity. In particular, the cotangent bundle $T^*G$ of any compact Lie group $G$ has bounded Hofer-Zehnder capacity. Secondly, we consider Hamiltonian circle actions given by symplectic submanifolds. For instance, we prove the following generalization of a recent result of Ginzburg-Gürel: almost all low levels of a function on a geometrically bounded symplectic manifold carry contractible periodic orbits of the Hamiltonian flow, provided that the function attains its minimum along a closed symplectic submanifold.
dc.description19 pages, 4 figures. Revised version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303230
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303230
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/66832
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.titleHofer-Zehnder semicapacity of cotangent bundles and symplectic submanifolds
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