Automorphisms of symplectic and contact structures

DOI10.1007/S10958-016-2991-YMaRDI QIDQ328616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. I. Panzhensky, Nikita A. Tyapin

Publication date 20 October 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-016-2991-y

absolute automorphism almost contact structure almost symplectic structure

Linear and affine connections (53B05) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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This is a survey of the Lie algebra of infinitesimal automorphisms preserving an (almost) symplectic form \(\omega\) along with a so-called \textit{canonical} connection \(\nabla;\) these automorphisms are called \textit{absolute} by the authors. The canonical connection is an affine connection \(\nabla\) satisfying \(\nabla \omega=0,\) and whose torsion \(S^k_{ij}=\Gamma^k_{ij}-\Gamma^k_{ji}\) satisfies the condition that \(S_{ijk}=\omega_{kp}S^p_{ij}\) is skew-symmetric in all indices, and where the (almost) symplectic form can be written as \(\omega=\frac{1}{2}\omega_{ij}dx^i \wedge dx^j\) in local coordinates. (By definition the 2-form \(\omega\) is nondegenerate but not necessarily closed.) While it is well known that the infinitesimal symplectomorphisms form an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra (it is given by the one-forms on the space) the automorphisms considered here constitute a finite-dimensional space; if the real dimension of the symplectic manifold is \(2n\) then the upper bound is \(n(n+3)/2,\) as shown by the first author in [Uch. Zap. Kazan. Univ. Ser. Fiz.-Mat., 147, No. 1, 148--153 (2005; Zbl 1208.53043); ``Infinitesimal automorphisms of almost symplectic structures with canonical torsions, in: Proc. Laptev Int. Geom. Semin., Penza. 80--84 (2007); ``Almost Hermitian structures on the tangent bundle of an almost symplectic manifold, Proc. Int. Geom. Center, No. 1, 125--130 (2008)]. Finally, analogous results are also obtained in the case of (almost) contact structures \((M,\eta)\) equipped with an affine connection \(\nabla\) preserving the contact 1-form \(\eta\), i.e., \(\nabla \eta=0.\) For instance, it is shown that the dimension of the Lie group of strict contact-affine transformations (preserving the contact 1-form as well as the connection) is at most \(2n^2+ 3n+1\) for an almost contact manifold being of dimension \(2n+1\).

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