Symplectomorphism groups and isotropic skeletons.
Sympletic Curvature Tensors.
Systems of rays in the presence of distribution of hyperplanes
Horizontal systems of rays arise in the study of integral curves of Hamiltonian systems on T*X, which are tangent to a given distribution V of hyperplanes on X. We investigate the local properties of systems of rays for general pairs (H,V) as well as for Hamiltonians H such that the corresponding Hamiltonian vector fields are horizontal with respect to V. As an example we explicitly calculate the space of horizontal geodesics and the corresponding systems of rays for the canonical distribution...
Systolic groups acting on complexes with no flats are word-hyperbolic
We prove that if a group acts properly and cocompactly on a systolic complex, in whose 1-skeleton there is no isometrically embedded copy of the 1-skeleton of an equilaterally triangulated Euclidean plane, then the group is word-hyperbolic. This was conjectured by D. T. Wise.
Systolic invariants of groups and -complexes via Grushko decomposition
We prove a finiteness result for the systolic area of groups. Namely, we show that there are only finitely many possible unfree factors of fundamental groups of -complexes whose systolic area is uniformly bounded. We also show that the number of freely indecomposable such groups grows at least exponentially with the bound on the systolic area. Furthermore, we prove a uniform systolic inequality for all -complexes with unfree fundamental group that improves the previously known bounds in this dimension....