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Assume the lower bound $e(L)\ge \gamma (L)/2$ for a closed rational Lagrangian submanifold, with matching energy convention. A nonidentity Hamiltonian map displaces a sufficiently small ball about some moved point. Inside that ball place a Lagrangian torus formed from equal-area circles. Its least positive Liouville period is positive, so the map's norm is at least half this period. This proves positivity of the distance between different maps without appealing to nondegeneracy itself.

Fix a primitive $\lambda$ of the standard symplectic form on ${\mathbb{R}}^{2n}$. With the coordinates of Question 2 one convenient choice isFor a Lagrangian submanifold with inclusion $i:L\hookrightarrow {\mathbb{R}}^{2n}$, $d(i^{\ast }\lambda )=i^{\ast }{\omega }_0=0$. Its Liouville class of a Lagrangian submanifold isAny two primitives differ by a closed one-form on the contractible ambient space, hence by an exact form, so the class is independent of the primitive. The cotangent primitive convention $\theta ={\sum }_j{p}_{j}d{q}_j$, with ${\omega }_0=-d\theta$, gives the negative of this class; rationality, positive period size and nonvanishing do not depend on that sign.

The period homomorphism sends an integral one-cycle $c$ to ${\int }_c{i}^{\ast }\lambda$. Its image $\mathrm{Per}(L)\subset \mathbb{R}$ is an additive subgroup. A rational Lagrangian submanifold is one for which this subgroup is discrete. In the nonzero case it has a unique positive generator:Equivalently ${\ell }_L$ is a real multiple of an integral cohomology class. The invariant $\gamma (L)$ is its least positive Liouville period, also expressible as $\inf \{a>0:a\in \mathrm{Per}(L)\}$. If the period group is zero, that infimum is $+\infty$ by the empty-set convention; some treatments instead reserve “rational” for the nonzero discrete case. Because the ambient space is contractible, the Stokes theorem identifies these periods with signed symplectic areas of disks whose boundaries lie on $L$.