New constructions of symplectically fat fiber bundles (Q497964)

The authors study algebraic properties of symplectically fat fiber bundles and construct new examples of such bundles. The idea of constructing fiber-wise symplectic structures on associated bundles using the fatness of the momentum mapping is due to \textit{A. Weinstein} [Adv. Math. 37, 239--250 (1980; Zbl 0449.53035), Theorem 3.2]. The authors are reasoning why it is well to use this property: ``The most important one comes from symplectic topology [\textit{D. McDuff} and \textit{D. Slamon}, Introduction to symplectic topology. 2nd ed. Oxford Mathematical Monographs. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (1998; Zbl 1066.53137), Chapter 6]. Symplectically fat fiber bundles yield families of symplectic manifolds with various prescribed properties serving as important testing examples. The second reason of our interest in symplectically fat bundles comes from the book by \textit{V. Guillemin} et al. [Symplectic fibrations and multiplicity diagrams. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press (1996; Zbl 0870.58023)]. In this book, the authors show how to apply fat bundle constructions in representation theory. Basically, the authors use the particular case of fat bundles which are coadjoint orbits fibered over coadjoint orbits. However, an analysis of the general case may yield new applications. We also want to mention an important article [\textit{J. Fine} and \textit{D. Panov}, Geom. Topol. 14, No. 3, 1723--1763 (2010; Zbl 1214.53058)] which is related to symplectic fatness. The authors constructed there some non-Kähler manifolds with trivial canonical bundle using a special case of a theorem of \textit{A. G. Reznikov} on the existence of symplectic structures on some twistor bundles [Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 11, No. 2, 109--118 (1993; Zbl 0810.53056)]. The latter result turned out to be a consequence of the fact that these bundles are symplectically fat [\textit{J. Kȩdra} et al., J. Geom. Phys. 61, No. 2, 462--475 (2011; Zbl 1220.53095)]. Although the method of fat bundles seems interesting and useful, it is extremely difficult to even find examples satisfying the fatness condition''. The generalized Lerman theorem, proved in [loc. cit.], allows in the case when a subgroup \(H\) of a semisimple group \(G\) is abelian, by Delzant's theorem [\textit{M. Audin}, The topology of torus actions on symplectic manifolds. Transl. from the French by the author. Progress in Mathematics, 93. Basel etc.: Birkhäuser Verlag (1991; Zbl 0726.57029); \textit{T. Delzant}, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 116, No. 3, 315--339 (1988; Zbl 0676.58029)], to prove the existence of symplectically fat fiber bundles with abelian structure group and with fibers which are toric manifolds (if to take the Delzant polytopes which omit the `forbidden' walls \(C_{\alpha }\)). One of the aims of the work is to find analogues of the described construction in the non-abelian case, that is, to find symplectically fat fiber bundles with non-homogeneous fibers and with non-abelian structure groups. Based on some Kirwan's results, one of the main statements of the work sounds as follows: {Theorem 6.} Let \(H\) be the centralizer of a torus in \(K\). Assume that \(H\) is compact and acts in a Hamiltonian fashion with the moment map \(\mu\) on a compact and connected symplectic manifold \((M,\omega )\). Then, the associated bundle \(M\rightarrow K\times _{\mathit{H}}M\rightarrow K/H\) is symplectically fat. Another interesting result, obtained by the authors in the article, is devoted to symplecticness of bundles associated with \(G\)-structures over homogeneous spaces. Some results of the authors describe a sufficient condition on fatness of the twistor bundle over an even-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((M^{2n},g)\). As a consequence, the following interesting result is stated: {Proposition 1.} The twistor bundle \(\mathrm{SO}(2n)/\mathrm U(n)\rightarrow T(\mathrm{Sp}(2n)/\mathrm{SO}(2n))\rightarrow \mathrm{Sp}(2n)/\mathrm{SO}(2n)\) over the Riemannian space \(K/H=\mathrm{Sp}(2n)/\mathrm{SO}(2n)\) is symplectically fat. The base of this bundle is not symplectic. The work is reasonably supported by concrete examples of the diverse symplectically fat fiber bundles.