Joint IAS-PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Contact Non-Squeezing and Rabinowitz Floer Homologhy
Peter Albers
Universitat Munster
Date & Time: 
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 13:30 - 14:30
Location: 
S-101

We will present joint work with Will Merry. Using spectral invariants in Rabinowitz Floer homology we present an abstract contact non-squeezing theorem for periodic contact manifolds. We then exemplify this in concrete examples. Finally we explain connections to the existence of a biinvariant metric on contactomorphism groups. All this is connected and generalizes work by Eliashberg-Polterovich and Sandon.