The infinite spectral-diameter conjecture for symplectic manifolds

Let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a compact symplectic manifold, and let γ\gamma be the Floer-theoretic pseudometric on the universal cover of Ham(M)\mathrm{Ham}(M). Assume that ω\omega vanishes on π2(M)\pi_{2}(M). Infinite spectral-diameter conjecture. The diameter of γ\gamma is infinite. This folklore conjecture concerns the large-scale geometry of Hamiltonian diffeomorphism groups and is motivated by the spectral pseudometric from Hamiltonian Floer theory. Its resolution is not specified in the source.

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Habib Alizadeh, Marcelo S. Atallah, Dylan Cant and Jianqiao Shang, “On the spectral diameter of the Grassmannians”, arXiv:2512.20125 (2025).

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