Contact Non-Squeezing and Rabinowitz Floer Homologhy
| Joint IAS-PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar | |
| Topic: | Contact Non-Squeezing and Rabinowitz Floer Homologhy |
| Speaker: | Peter Albers |
| Affiliation: | Universitat Munster |
| Date: | Friday, February 15 |
| Time/Room: | 1:30pm - 2:30pm/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.