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Examples of symplectic non-leaves

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Abstract

This paper deals with the following question: which manifolds can be realized as leaves of codimension-1 symplectic foliations (of regularity at least C2) on closed manifolds? We first observe that leaves of symplectic foliations are necessarily strongly geometrically bounded. We show that a symplectic structure which admits an exhaustion by compacts with (convex) contact boundary can be deformed to a strongly geometrically bounded one. We then give examples of smooth manifolds which admit a strongly geometrically bounded symplectic form and can be realized as a smooth leaf, but not as a symplectic leaf for any choice of symplectic form on them. Lastly, we show that the (complex) blowup of 2n-dimensional Euclidean space at infinitely many points admits both strongly geometrically bounded symplectic forms for which it can and cannot be realized as a symplectic leaf.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1081-1100
Number of pages20
JournalRevista Matematica Iberoamericana
Volume41
Issue number3
Early online date15 Apr 2025
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Real Sociedad Matemática Española.

Funding

Funding. The first author has been supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 772479). The second author has been supported by the F.R.S-FNRS and the FWO under the Excellence of Science programme (grant no. 30950721).

Keywords

  • foliation
  • symplectic

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