Polterovich's Poisson bracket invariant lower-bound conjecture

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Let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a closed symplectic manifold. For a finite open cover U={Ui}\mathcal{U}=\{U_i\} of MM, let pb(U)pb(\mathcal{U}) denote its Poisson bracket invariant, let e(Ui)e(U_i) denote the displacement energy of UiU_i, and set

e(U):=maxie(Ui).e(\mathcal{U}):=\max_i e(U_i).

Polterovich's conjecture. There exists a constant CMC_M, depending only on the symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M,\omega), such that for every finite open cover U={Ui}\mathcal{U}=\{U_i\} of MM,

pb(U)CMe(U).pb(\mathcal{U})\geq \frac{C_M}{e(\mathcal{U})}.

This lower bound can be interpreted as an uncertainty principle for Poisson bracket invariants. The invariant is known to be strictly positive when the cover consists of displaceable sets, while the conjectured quantitative lower bound remains open in higher dimensions.

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Primary source

Lev Buhovsky and Shira Tanny, “A local-to-global inequality for spectral invariants and an energy dichotomy for Floer trajectories”, arXiv:2212.01872 (2022).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2102.07487, arXiv:1803.09741, arXiv:1705.02513.

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