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Publications and source records attributed to Dylan Cant.
We construct non-compact contact manifolds containing compact Legendrians which can be displaced from their Reeb flow with arbitrarily small oscillation energy. We use this to show the Shelukhin-Chekanov-Hofer pseudo-metric considered by Rosen and Zhang is degenerate on the isotopy class of the constructed Legendrians. Other aspects related to oscillation energy of Legendrian isotopies are explored.
We prove a contact non-squeezing result for a class of embeddings between starshaped domains in the contactization of the symplectization of the unit cotangent bundle of certain manifolds. The class of embeddings includes embeddings which are not isotopic to the identity. This yields a new proof that there is no positive loop of contactomorphisms in the unit cotangent bundles under consideration. The proof uses the shape invariant introduced by Sikorav and Eliashberg.
Exponential convergence type results are proved for holomorphic curves in the symplectization of a contact manifold $Y$ with boundary on a Legendrian cylinder. The results are proven in all dimensions, and generalize earlier work specific to dimension 3.
We construct a contactomorphism of the standard sphere which does not have any translated points, providing a negative answer to a conjecture posed by Sandon.
We give a self-contained proof of a formula computing the Fredholm index for asymptotically non-degenerate Cauchy-Riemann operators on surfaces with boundary punctures using the method of large antilinear deformations. This method for computing the index was introduced in the case of closed surfaces by Taubes and generalized to the case with interior punctures by Gerig. One novel feature arising from our proof is that the Euler characteristic term in the index formula involves a non-standard weighted count of boundary zeros. We hope that this formulation of the index formula will be useful to other researchers.
A convergence result for perturbed holomorphic cylinders in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ is proved; a sequence of perturbed holomorphic cylinders converges to a configuration of two holomorphic disks joined by a flow line. A key step in the computation is played by an a priori exponential estimate.
Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow preserves the area enclosed by the evolving curve, and this fact is used to prove a general isoperimetric inequality applicable to radial graphs in warped product surfaces under weak assumptions on the warp potential.