Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces

Abstract

We prove a conjecture of Viterbo from 2007 on the existence of a uniform bound on the Lagrangian spectral norm of Hamiltonian deformations of the zero section in unit cotangent disk bundles, for bases given by compact rank one symmetric spaces $S^n,\mathbb{R}{P}^n,\mathbb{C}{P}^n,\mathbb{H}{P}^n,$ $n\ge 1.$ We discuss generalizations and give applications, in particular to $C^0$ symplectic topology. Our key methods, which are of independent interest, consist of a reinterpretation of the spectral norm via the asymptotic behavior of a family of cones of filtered morphisms, and a quantitative deformation argument for Floer persistence modules, that allows to excise a divisor.

39 pages