Study reveals closed manifolds can host cohomologous symplectic forms with differing Gromov widths, highlighting geometric distinctions.
We study McDuff-Salamon's Problem 46 by showing that there exist closed manifolds of dimension ≥ 6 admitting cohomologous symplectic forms with different Gromov widths. The examples are motivated by Ruan's early example of deformation inequivalent symplectic forms in dimension $6$ distinguished by Gromov-Witten invariants. To find cohomologous symplectic forms and compare their Gromov width, we make use of Li-Liu's theorem of symplectic cone for manifolds with b₂⁺=1 and Biran's ball packing theorem in dimension $4$. Along the way, we also show that these cohomologous symplectic forms can have distinct first Chern classes, which answers another question by Salamon.
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