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Hofer–Zehnder symplectic capacity for two-dimensional manifolds*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Mei-Yue Jiang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R. China

Synopsis

In this paper, we show that the Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacity of a two-dimensional manifold is same as the area of the manifold. Using this fact, we also get a result on the symplectic capacity of the cotangent bundle of the torus with its canonical symplectic form.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1993

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