Colloquium

Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and a pseudo-distance on the space of loops on an oriented surface

薮 義郎

7月4日(金) 13時30分

We will consider the problem whether two loops on an oriented surface are Hamiltonianly diffeomorphic. This problem is a specifical case of the classification problem of Lagrangian submanifolds in a symplectic manifold.

Our goal of this talk is to construct a psuedo-distance between two loops satisfying a certain condition, and to show a property that the distance between two loops is zero if they are Hamiltonianly diffeomorphic to each other. This psuedo-distance would be considered as a counterpart of the Hofer distance, which is known as a non-degenerate one between Hamiltonianly diffeomorphic loops.

We will define the (combinatorial) Floer complex for a pair of loops by counting areas of "lobes", and explain the condition under which the construction of our psuedo-distance works well.