Unbounded Hofer distance from autonomous Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms

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Let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a closed symplectic manifold. Denote by Ham⁡(M,ω)\operatorname{Ham}(M,\omega) the group of C∞C^\infty-smooth Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, equipped with Hofer's metric dd, and let Aut⁡⊂Ham⁡(M,ω)\operatorname{Aut}\subset\operatorname{Ham}(M,\omega) be the set of autonomous Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Define

aut⁡(M,ω):=sup⁡ϕ∈Ham⁡(M,ω)d(ϕ,Aut⁡).\operatorname{aut}(M,\omega):=\sup_{\phi\in\operatorname{Ham}(M,\omega)}d(\phi,\operatorname{Aut}).

Unboundedness conjecture. For every closed symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M,\omega),

aut⁡(M,ω)=+∞.\operatorname{aut}(M,\omega)=+\infty.

This asserts that autonomous Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms can lie arbitrarily far from arbitrary Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms in Hofer's geometry. The supplied text does not indicate whether the statement is proved or remains open.

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Leonid Polterovich and Egor Shelukhin, “Autonomous Hamiltonian flows, Hofer's geometry and persistence modules”, arXiv:1412.8277 (2015).

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