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Hofer-Like Geometry and Flux Theory

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pp. 227–270Vol. 19Issue 2July 2021DOI: 10.1080/1726037X.2021.2011110XML
Received:
26 Aug 2021
Accepted:
26 Oct 2021
Published Online:
04 Jan 2022
Article type:
Research Article
Language:
EN
Article no.:
1726037X.2021.2011110
Pages:
227–270

Abstract

This paper meticulously revisit and study the flux geometry of any compact connected oriented manifold (M, Ω). We generalize several well- known factorization results, exhibit some orbital conditions under which flux geometry can be studied, give a proof of the discreteness of the flux group for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, derive that any smooth isotopy in the group of all vanishing-flux volume-preserving diffeomorphisms is a vanishing- flux path, and show that the kernel of flux for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms is C1−closed inside the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map: We recover several well-known results from symplectic geometry. We use the above studies to construct a right-invariant metric on the group of all volume-preserving diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity map and study the induced geometry. In the case of a symplectic volume form, the restriction of our metric to the group Ham(N, ω), of all Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold (N, ω), is controlled from above by the usual Hofer metric in general, while the Hofer-like metric control our metric in the case where the Riemannian structure is compatible with the symplectic structure (in particular, our construction implies the non-degeneracy of the Hofer and Hofer-like norms).

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