The gap between near commutativity and almost commutativity in symplectic category

Lev Buhovski

doi:10.3934/era.2013.20.71

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The gap between near commutativity and almost commutativity in symplectic category

Lev Buhovski^1,

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978

Received: February 28, 2013

Revised: May 31, 2013

Published: December 2012

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On any closed symplectic manifold of dimension greater than $ 2 $, we construct a pair of smooth functions, such that on the one hand, the uniform norm of their Poisson bracket equals to $ 1 $, but on the other hand, this pair cannot be reasonably approximated (in the uniform norm) by a pair of Poisson commuting smooth functions. This comes in contrast with the dimension $ 2 $ case, where by a partial case of a result of Zapolsky [13], an opposite statement holds.

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