nLab Hofer's geometry

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Idea

Hofer’s metric is a Riemannian metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a symplectic manifold. This group is infinite-dimensional, so that the existence of this metric is nontrivial, due noncompactness.

Hofer’s geometry is now a classical subject in symplectic geometry.

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