Characteristic classes of Lagrangian foliations (Q920413)

The author studies Lagrangian foliations on quasisymplectic and quasicontact manifolds. For the sake of simplicity we shall describe the results concerning Lagrangian foliations on the quasisymplectic manifolds only. The case of quasicontact manifolds is analogous. A quasisymplectic manifold is a manifold M, dim M\(=2n+r\), endowed with a closed 2-form \(\omega\) having rank \(\omega =2n\). A foliation \({\mathcal F}\) of M is called Lagrangian if \(\omega| {\mathcal F}=0\) and dim \({\mathcal F}=n+r\). The author first shows that a Lagrangian foliation on a quasisymplectic manifold is locally isomorphic with the quasisymplectic manifold \((T^*{\mathbb{R}}^ n)\times {\mathbb{R}}^ r\) endowed with the 2-form \(\omega =\sum dq^ i\wedge dp_ i,\) and the Lagrangian foliation \(q=const\). Further he presents a Bott-type vanishing theorem for Lagrangian foliations. Next he constructs characteristic classes for Lagrangian foliations as the usual homomorphism \(H^*(g_ n;{\mathbb{R}})\to H^*(M,{\mathbb{R}}).\) Here the Lie algebra \(g_ n\), which substitutes the Lie algebra \(W_ n\) of formal vector fields, is a subalgebra of \(W_{2n}\) consisting of formal Hamiltonian vector fields (we consider \(R^{2n}\) as \(T^*{\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with the standard symplectic structure) preserving the foliation \(q=const\). Similarly as for \(W_ n\) a topological space \(Y_ n\) is constructed with the property \(H^*(g_ n,{\mathbb{R}})=H^*(Y_ n,{\mathbb{R}}).\) At the end the author presents an example of a Lagrangian foliation with nontrivial characteristic classes.