# Middle dimensional symplectic rigidity and its effect on Hamiltonian PDEs

## TL;DR

This paper establishes a middle dimensional symplectic rigidity result for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms and applies it to infinite-dimensional PDEs like the Sine-Gordon equation, linking symplectic geometry with PDE analysis.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel middle dimensional rigidity theorem for coisotropic cylinders and extends it to Hamiltonian PDEs using symplectic capacities and approximation techniques.

## Key findings

- Proves a rigidity result for coisotropic cylinders in finite dimensions.
- Extends the rigidity to infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian PDEs.
- Applies the results to the Sine-Gordon equation.

## Abstract

In the first part of the article we study Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ which are generated by sub-quadratic Hamiltonians and prove a middle dimensional rigidity result for the image of coisotropic cylinders. The tools that we use are Viterbo's symplectic capacities and a series of inequalities coming from their relation with symplectic reduction. In the second part we consider the nonlinear string equation and treat it as an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system. In this context we are able to apply Kuksin's approximation by finite dimensional Hamiltonian flows and prove a PDE version of the rigidity result for coisotropic cylinders. As a particular example, this result can be applied to the Sine-Gordon equation.