# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2016, 10: 511-539. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2016.10.511

## Mean action and the Calabi invariant

 1 Department of Mathematics, 970 Evans Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States

Received  December 2015 Revised  August 2016 Published  November 2016

Given an area-preserving diffeomorphism of the closed unit disk which is a rotation near the boundary, one can naturally define an action'' function on the disk which agrees with the rotation number on the boundary. The Calabi invariant of the diffeomorphism is the average of the action function over the disk. Given a periodic orbit of the diffeomorphism, its mean action'' is defined to be the average of the action function over the orbit. We show that if the Calabi invariant is less than the boundary rotation number, then the infimum over periodic orbits of the mean action is less than or equal to the Calabi invariant. The proof uses a new filtration on embedded contact homology determined by a transverse knot, which may be of independent interest. (An analogue of this filtration can be defined for any other version of contact homology in three dimensions that counts holomorphic curves.)
Citation: Michael Hutchings. Mean action and the Calabi invariant. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2016, 10: 511-539. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2016.10.511
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