Krupp, Stefan (2020). Calculating the EHZ Capacity of Polytopes. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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In this thesis we are concerned with symplectic geometry. This rather new field of research gained much interest due to some famous results in the late 20th century, such as the celebrated non-squeezing theorem by Gromov. An intriguing feature of this theorem is, that it is true if and only if there are global symplectic invariants that satisfy certain properties. These global invariants are called symplectic capacities and their existence is a nontrivial fact. By now, several constructions are known but the computation of symplectic capacities has not received much attention. In this thesis, we address this aspect for a certain symplectic capacity, namely the Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder capacity, which maps a nonnegative number or infinity to every convex body in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$. To compute the Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder capacity of sets of the form $K\times T$, where both $K$ and $T$ are convex sets, we use an approach based on Minkowski Billiards. More precisely, we build on an algorithm by Alkoumi and Schlenk, that is formulated for the case where $K$ is a two-dimensional convex set and $T$ is the Euclidean unit ball. On the one hand, we adapt this algorithm to allow convex sets $K$ with arbitrary dimension. On the other hand, we generalize the approach by Alkoumi and Schlenk from the Euclidean setting (where $T$ is the Euclidean unit ball) to the Minkowski setting (where $T$ is an arbitrary convex set). In particular, we consider the case where both $K$ and $T$ are polytopes. Aside from this approach we consider a formulation of the Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder capacity as a maximization problem, which is due to Abbondandolo and Majer. This maximization problem is a hybrid of a quadratic assignment problem and a quadratic program with non-convex objective function. We employ different optimization techniques and obtain upper and lower bounds on the Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder capacity of polytopes. Amongst others, we obtain a very good upper bound that is equal to the exact value for many small problem instances at the cost of a rapidly increasing running time.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-361968 | ||||||||
Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Mathematical Institute | ||||||||
Subjects: | Mathematics | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 18 February 2021 | ||||||||
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Funders: | DFG Sonderforschungsbereich CRC/TRR 191, Projekt C1 | ||||||||
Projects: | C1: Symplectic capacities of polytopes | ||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/36196 |
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