Date:
Tue, 29/07/202511:00-12:00
Location:
Room 70, Ross Building, Jerusalem, Israel
Symplectic capacities are invariants that quantify the size of symplectic manifolds using themes from Hamiltonian dynamics and symplectic topology. Although convexity is not preserved under symplectomorphisms, convex domains still display notable behavior with respect to these capacities. Viterbo's volume-capacity conjecture (2000) suggests that, among convex domains of the same volume, the ball has maximal capacity. By capturing the interplay between convex and symplectic geometries, this simply formulated conjecture has become highly influential in the study of symplectic capacities, prompting extensive research. In this talk, I will present a counterexample to Viterbo’s conjecture developed jointly with Yaron Ostrover and discuss follow-up questions.