Displacement energy (symplectic geometry)

ID: displacement-energy-symplectic-geometry

The displacement energy of a subset of a symplectic manifold is the infimum of the energy norms of compactly supported Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms moving it off itself. The infimum is if no such map exists. One must use the same chosen norm convention in both this definition and any energy lower bound. A compact set can have zero displacement energy even when every nonidentity map has positive norm.

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