Liouville domains from Okounkov bodies

Abstract

Given a strictly concave rational PL function $\varphi$ on a complete $n$-dimensional fan $\Sigma$, we construct an exact symplectic structure of finite volume on $({\mathbb{C}}^{\times }{)}^n$ and a family of functions $H_{\varphi ,\epsilon }$ called polyhedral Hamiltonians. We prove that for each $\epsilon$ the one-periodic orbits of $H_{\varphi ,\epsilon }$ come in families corresponding to finitely many primitive lattice points of $\Sigma$ and determine their topology. When $\varphi$ is negative on the rays of $\Sigma$, we show that the level sets of polyhedral Hamiltonians are hypersurfaces of contact type. As a byproduct, this construction provides a dynamical model for the singularities of toric varieties obtained as degenerations of Fano manifolds in any dimension via Okounkov bodies.

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