Non-density results in high dimensional stable Hamiltonian topology

Abstract

We push forward the study of higher dimensional stable Hamiltonian topology by establishing two non-density results. First, we prove that stable hypersurfaces are not $C^3$-dense in any isotopy class of embedded hypersurfaces on any ambient symplectic manifold of dimension $2n\ge 8$. Our second result is that on any manifold of dimension $2m+1\ge 5$, the set of non-degenerate stable Hamiltonian structures is not $C^2$-dense among stable Hamiltonian structures in any given stable homotopy class that satisfies a mild assumption. The latter generalizes a result by Cieliebak and Volkov to arbitrary dimensions.

27 pages. Minor corrections, final version, to appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society