Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Sang Seon Kim, Instituto Superior Técnico
Geometry of contact domains and transformations

Eliashberg and Polterovich introduced a partial order on the universal cover of the identity component of the group of contact diffeomorphisms. We show the triviality of this partial order for some contact manifolds by studying contact squeezing properties of certain domains. Also we will discuss how to apply symplectic field theory to squeezing problems.