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Hamiltonian action and grading shifts under recapping
Statement
Let be symplectic data with a chosen compatible structure, let be smooth and periodic, and let be a nondegenerate contractible one-periodic orbit with cap . For every recapping sphere , Hence, if and , both action and integer grading are independent of the capping.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: The action, cap, recapping, Chern-number, and Conley–Zehnder conventions of the preceding definition.
Capped Hamiltonian orbits and recapping data: , the vector-field convention is , and the chosen index convention assigns a recapping loop with determinant winding the shift .
Symplectic and almost-complex curve data: , so the symplectic period is invariant under homotopy of a sphere representative.
The spherical period maps and vanish on .
Proof
The cap is obtained by gluing a representative sphere into , so additivity of integration gives . The Hamiltonian term is unchanged; substitution in the definition of gives the action shift . Closedness in [F2] makes depend only on the sphere class.
Normalize the two cap-induced frames to agree at . In the stated transition convention, the frame from has coordinate change relative to the frame from , so the linearized paths are related by and . The loop-shift law gives .
Under [A1], both displayed shifts vanish for every recapping sphere. Therefore the action and integer grading are capping-independent.