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Symplectic displacement energy for Lagrangian submanifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Leonid Polterovich
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel

Abstract

Recently H. Hofer defined a new symplectic invariant which has a beautiful dynamical meaning. In the present paper we study this invariant for Lagrangian submanifolds of symplectic manifolds. Our approach is based on Gromov's theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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