Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Margherita Sandon, Instituto Superior Técnico
Contact Non-Squeezing via Generating Functions

In 2006 Eliashberg, Kim and Polterovich discovered an interesting non-squeezing phenomenon for a certain kind of domains in the contact manifold $\mathbb R^{2n} \times S^1$. I will present a new proof of their result, using generating functions instead of holomorphic curves techniques.