Symplectic Ball Packing
Find explicit embeddings of symplectic balls into a single target ball, taking up all but $\epsilon$ of the target ball's volume.
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About the problem
In dimension four, it is known that it is possible to fully fill a symplectic ball by $k$ symplectic balls of the same radius whenever $k \ge 10$. Here “fully fill” means that one can find a symplectomorphism under which the images of the balls take up all but $\epsilon$ of the volume of the target ball, for any arbitrarily small $\epsilon > 0$. However, the proof is not at all explicit. It remains an important open problem to find explicit constructions of these embeddings.
Warm-up: we ask about $k = 4$, where explicit constructions are already known.
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