id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt w3763487k1g Edward Burkard First Steps in Homotopy Results for Symplectic Embeddings of Ellipsoids 1904 .txt text/plain 110 5 63 We identify a loop of symplectic embeddings E(a,b) U E(a,b) --> B^4(R) which is contractible when R > a+b and which is non-contractible when 2a < R < a+b, provided that b < 2a. The space of symplectic embeddings of ellipsoids has been an object of great study in recent years. cache/w3763487k1g.txt txt/w3763487k1g.txt