Abstract

We prove that the Gromov width of a coadjoint orbit of the symplectic group through a regular point $\lambda$, lying on some rational line, is at least equal to:

Together with the results of Zoghi and Caviedes concerning the upper bounds, this establishes the actual Gromov width. This fits in the general conjecture that for any compact connected simple Lie group $G$, the Gromov width of its coadjoint orbit through $\lambda \in Lie{\left(G\right)}^{\ast }$ is given by the above formula. The proof relies on tools coming from symplectic geometry, algebraic geometry and representation theory: we use a toric degeneration of a coadjoint orbit to a toric variety whose polytope is the string polytope arising from a string parametrization of elements of a crystal basis for a certain representation of the symplectic group.

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