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Obstructions in Symplectic Embedding Problems for Four-Dimensional Convex Toric Domains

Theodore Coyne
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In Beyond ECH Capacities, Hutchings used the ECH cobordism map to produce obstructions for embedding one convex toric domain into another. We generalize the methods there to obstruct symplectic embeddings of a disjoint union of convex toric domains into another convex toric domain. We also find additional obstructions coming from intersection positivity and use similar methods to obstruct the existence of isotopies between two given symplectic embeddings.

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Theodore Coyne. 2026-10-05. Obstructions in Symplectic Embedding Problems for Four-Dimensional Convex Toric Domains. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07530

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