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We identify a new class of closed smooth manifolds for which there exists a uniform bound on the Lagrangian spectral norm of Hamiltonian deformations of the zero section in a unit cotangent disk bundle. This settles a well-known conjecture of Viterbo from 2007 as the special case of T n , which has been completely open for n > 1 . Our methods are different and more intrinsic than those of the previous work of the author first settling the case n = 1 . The new class of manifolds is defined in topological terms involving the Chas–Sullivan algebra and the BV-operator on the homology of the free loop space. It contains spheres and is closed under products. We discuss generalizations and various applications, to C 0 symplectic topology in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We prove a conjecture of Viterbo from 2007 on the existence of a uniform bound on the Lagrangian spectral norm of Hamiltonian deformations of the zero section in unit cotangent disk bundles, for bases given by compact rank one symmetric spaces S n , R P n , C P n , H P n , n ≥ 1. We discuss generalizations and give applications, in particular to C 0 symplectic topology. Our key method consists in a quantitative deformation argument for Floer persistence modules that allows to excise a divisor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We prove a number of new results on the large-scale geometry of the L p -metrics on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of each orientable surface. Our proofs use in a key way the Fulton-MacPherson type compactification of the configuration space of n points on the surface due to Axelrod-Singer and Kontsevich. This allows us to apply the Schwarz-Milnor lemma to configuration spaces, a natural approach which we carry out successfully for the first time. As sample results, we prove that all right-angled Artin groups admit quasi-isometric embeddings into the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms endowed with the L p -metric, and that all Gambaudo-Ghys quasi-morphisms on this metric group coming from the braid group on n strands are Lipschitz. This was conjectured to hold, yet proven only for small values of n and g, where g is the genus of the surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We find robust obstructions to representing a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism as a full k-th power, $$k \ge 2$$ , and in particular, to including it into a one-parameter subgroup. The robustness is understood in the sense of Hofer's metric. Our approach is based on the theory of persistence modules applied in the context of filtered Floer homology. We present applications to geometry and dynamics of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We establish a C0 a priori bound on the solutions of the quaternionic Calabi-Yau equation (of Monge-Ampère type) on compact HKT manifolds with a locally flat hypercomplex structure. As an intermediate step, we prove a quaternionic version of the Gauduchon theorem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]