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Mélanie Bertelson

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Non-squeezing and other global rigidity results in locally conformal symplectic geometry

Using generating functions quadratic at infinity for Lagrangian submanifolds of twisted cotangent bundles, we define spectral selectors for compactly supported lcs Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the locally conformal symplectizations $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$ and $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$ of $\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$ and $\mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$, and obtain several applications: the construction of a bi-invariant partial order on the group of compactly supported lcs Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$ and $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$, of an integer-valued bi-invariant metric on the group of compactly supported lcs Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$, and of an integer-valued lcs capacity for domains of $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$. The lcs capacity is used to prove a lcs non-squeezing theorem in $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$ analogous to the contact non-squeezing theorem in $\mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$ discovered in 2006 by Eliashberg, Kim and Polterovich. Along the way we introduce for Liouville lcs manifolds the notions of essential Lee chords between exact Lagrangian submanifolds and of essential translated points of exact lcs diffeomorphisms. We prove that essential translated points always exist for time-$1$ maps of sufficiently $C^0$-small lcs Hamiltonian isotopies of compact Liouville lcs manifolds and for all compactly supported lcs Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$ and $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^{2n} \times S^1$. We also obtain an existence result for essential Lee chords between the zero section of a twisted cotangent bundle with compact base and its image by any lcs Hamiltonian isotopy, which can be thought of as a lcs analogue of the Lagrangian and Legendrian Arnold conjectures on usual cotangent and $1$-jet bundles.

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PL approximations of symplectic manifolds

This paper is a contribution to piecewise linear (PL) symplectic topology. We define the notion of PL symplectic manifold as being a combinatorial manifold endowed with a piecewise constant Whitney symplectic form and investigate possible relations between the two categories of symplectic spaces. We prove that smooth symplectic manifolds admit arbitrarily fine smooth triangulations in general position with respect to the symplectic form and can be $C^0$-approximated by PL symplectic manifolds. We cannot prove that smooth symplectic structures can be triangulated, except in trivial cases, but we can prove that their associated volume form can be triangulated by the volume form of some of these approximating PL manifolds.

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Dynamical Morse entropy

We consider actions of a tileable amenable group $Γ$ on a topological space $X$. For a continuous function on $X$, we define the entropy of the number of homologically detectable critical point of the average of that function over $Γ$. This number is bounded below by the sum of the Betti number entropy. This result is thus a generalization of a standard Morse inequality in differential geometry to this setting.

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Some remarks on a Künneth formula for foliated de Rham cohomology

The Künneth formula is one of the basic tools for computing cohomology. Its validity for foliated cohomology, that is, for the tangential de Rham cohomology of a foliated manifold, is investigated. The main difficulty encountered is the non-Hausdorff nature of the foliated cohomology spaces, forbidding the completion of the tensor product. The results presented here are a Künneth formula when both factors have Hausdorff foliated cohomology, a Künneth formula when one factor has Hausdorff finite-dimensional foliated cohomology and a counterexample to an alternative version of the Künneth formula. The proof of the second result involves a right inverse for the foliated de Rham differential.

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A correspondence between a class of cone structures and contact forms

In the spirit of Sullivan's paper "Cycles for the Dynamical Study of Foliated Manifolds and Complex Manifolds", existence of a contact structure on a closed manifold $M$ is shown to be equivalent to existence of an ample $S^1$-invariant cone structure with no nontrivial exact structure cycles on the manifold $S^1 \times M$.

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Affine connections and symmetry jets

We establish a bijective correspondence between affine connections and a class of semi-holonomic jets of local diffeomorphisms of the underlying manifold called symmetry jets in the text. The symmetry jet corresponding to a torsion free connection consists in the family of $2$-jets of the geodesic symmetries. Conversely, any connection is described in terms of the geodesic symmetries by a simple formula involving only the Lie bracket of vector fields. We then formulate, in terms of the symmetry jet, several aspects of the theory of affine connections and obtain geometric and intrinsic descriptions of various related objects involving the gauge groupoid of the frame bundle. In particular, the property of uniqueness of affine extension admits an equivalent formulation as the property of existence and uniqueness of a certain groupoid morphism. Moreover, affine extension may be carried out at all orders and this allows for a description of the tensors associated to an affine connections, namely the torsion, the curvature and their covariant derivatives of all orders, as obstructions for the affine extension to be holonomic. In addition this framework provides a nice interpretation for the absence of other tensors.

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