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Topological lower bounds on the distance between area preserving diffeomorphisms

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Area preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-disk which are Identity near the boundary form a group which can be equipped, using theL2-norm on its Lie algebra, with a right invariant metric. In this paper we give a lower bound on the distance between diffeomorphisms which is invariant under area preserving changes of coordinates and which improves the lower bound induced by the Calabi invariant. In the case of renormalizable and infinitely renormalizable maps, our estimate can be improved and computed.