The codisc radius capacity

Kai Zehmisch

doi:10.3934/era.2013.20.77

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The codisc radius capacity

Kai Zehmisch^1,

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Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 86-90, 50931 Köln

Received: November 30, 2012

Revised: May 31, 2013

Published: December 2012

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We prove a generalization of Gromov's packing inequality to symplectic embeddings of the boundaries of two balls such that the bounded components of the complements of the image spheres are disjoint. Moreover, we define a capacity which measures the size of Weinstein tubular neighborhoods of Lagrangian submanifolds. In symplectic vector spaces this leads to bounds on the codisc radius for any closed Lagrangian submanifold in terms of Viterbo's isoperimetric inequality. Furthermore, we introduce the spherical variant of the relative Gromov radius and prove its finiteness for monotone Lagrangian tori in symplectic vector spaces.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 53D35, 57R17, 53C22.

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