A construction of symplectic connections through reduction. (Q5953687)

The setting of this work is the following: \((M, \omega )\) is a symplectic manifold, \(G\) is a Lie group which acts in strongly Hamiltonian fashion on \(M\), \(J: M \rightarrow {\mathfrak g}^*\) is the corresponding momentum map (\({\mathfrak g}^*\) is the dual of the Lie algebra \( \mathfrak g\) of \(G\)) and \(\mu\) is a regular value of \(J\). Then, if \(\Sigma = J^{-1}(\mu)\in M\) is the constrained manifold of \(M\) and \(G_{\mu}\) denotes the stabilizer of \(\mu\) under coadjoint action of \(G\) the quotient \(\Sigma/G_{\mu}= \Sigma_{\mu}\) is a symplectic manifold. It is further assumed that \(M\) is equipped with \(G\)-invariant symplectic connection \(\nabla\), i.e. \(\nabla\) is torsion-free and \(\omega\) is parallel. The principal claim of the authors in the situation described above is that the reduced manifold \(\Sigma_{\mu}\) can be endowed with a symplectic connection \(\nabla^r\) as well. Here, its construction is exemplified in the case \(M= {\mathbb R}^{2n +2}\) and \(G = Sp(2n +2, {\mathbb R})\). The reduced spaces are described in explicit way and the main result is that if \(A\in sp(2n +2, {\mathbb R})\) associated with the momentum satisfies \(A^2 = \lambda \text{Id}\) the reduced connection \(\nabla^r\) is globally symmetric. The case \(A^2 \not = \lambda \text{Id}\) is also quite interesting as in this case \(\nabla^r\) is not locally symmetric and even such symplectic connections were unknown up to now.