$C^1$-Local Flatness and Geodesics of the Legendrian Spectral Distance

Abstract

In this article, we give an explicit computation of the order spectral selectors of a pair of $C^1$-close Legendrian submanifolds belonging to an orderable isotopy class. The $C^1$-local flatness of the spectral distance and the characterisation of its geodesics are deduced. Another consequence is the $C^1$-local coincidence of spectral and Shelukhin-Chekanov-Hofer distances. Similar statements are then deduced for several contactomorphism groups.

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