Symplectic embeddings into four-dimensional concave toric domains
Abstract
ECH capacities give obstructions to symplectically embedding one symplectic four-manifold with boundary into another. We compute the ECH capacities of a large family of symplectic four-manifolds with boundary, called "concave toric domains". Examples include the (nondisjoint) union of two ellipsoids in $\mathbb{R}^4$. We use these calculations to find sharp obstructions to certain symplectic embeddings involving concave toric domains. For example: (1) we calculate the Gromov width of every concave toric domain; (2) we show that many inclusions of an ellipsoid into the union of an ellipsoid and a cylinder are "optimal"; and (3) we find a sharp obstruction to ball packings into certain unions of an ellipsoid and a cylinder.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1310.6647
- Bibcode:
- 2013arXiv1310.6647C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Symplectic Geometry
- E-Print:
- 31 pages, 2 figures