The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics.

The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject.

Editorial Board

Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil
Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Dierk Schleicher, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Katrin Wendland, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Autorentext

Felix Schlenk is Postdoc at the Department of Mathematics of Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

Klappentext

Symplectic geometry is the geometry underlying Hamiltonian dynamics, and symplectic mappings arise as time-1-maps of Hamiltonian flows. The spectacular rigidity phenomena for symplectic mappings discovered in the last two decades show that certain things cannot be done by a symplectic mapping. For instance, Gromov's famous "non-squeezing'' theorem states that one cannot map a ball into a thinner cylinder by a symplectic embedding. The aim of this book is to show that certain other things can be done by symplectic mappings. This is achieved by various elementary and explicit symplectic embedding constructions, such as "folding", "wrapping'', and "lifting''. These constructions are carried out in detail and are used to solve some specific symplectic embedding problems.

The exposition is self-contained and addressed to students and researchers interested in geometry or dynamics.