Homogeneous connections with special symplectic holonomy (Q5956852)

A symplectic connection on a manifold \(M\) is said to be special if its holonomy group is a proper irreducible subgroup of \(\text{Sp}(V)\), where \(V\) is the tangent space to the base point. First examples of special symplectic connections were found by \textit{R. L. Bryant} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 53, 33-88 (1991; Zbl 0758.53017)]. All groups which can be a special holonomy group are known. The paper contains many results on manifolds with special symplectic connections. It includes seven tables; in particular, they provide examples for almost all such groups. The author defines the symplectic scalar curvature as the trace of the squared Ricci operator. It is proved that any symplectic manifold \(M\) with a torsion free symplectic connection, a special holonomy group, and the constant symplectic scalar curvature is locally homogeneous if some additional assumptions hold (for example, if the covariant derivative of the curvature does not vanish at any point of \(M\)). All these connections are locally modelled by a family of vector bundles over symplectic symmetric spaces, consisting of two series and an exceptional bundle (table 1). In these spaces, complements to the zero section are globally homogeneous. All globally homogeneous spaces are found up to coverings (tables 2 and 3). The behavior of the momentum map on them also is described. Some proofs are given up to omitted calculations made in the author's paper in Math. Z. 238, 655-688 (2001; Zbl 1013.53032).