Extrinsically immersed symplectic symmetric spaces (Q963263)

The authors study extrinsically symmetric submanifolds in the context of symplectic geometry. Let \((V,\Omega)\) be a symplectic vector space and \(M\) be a symmetric space. An immersion \(\varphi:M\to V\) is symplectic if \(\varphi^*(\Omega)\) is nondegenerate, and it is extrinsic symplectic if it is symplectic and \(\varphi \circ s_p = \sigma_{T_p} \circ \varphi\) holds for all \(p \in M\), where \(s_p\) is the geodesic symmetry of \(M\) at \(p\) and \(\sigma_{T_p}\) is the orthogonal reflection of \(V\) in the affine normal space of \(T_p = d\varphi(T_pM)\). The authors first show that a symplectic immersion \(\varphi:M\to V\) has parallel shape operator if and only if there exist a symmetric space \(\widehat{M}\), an extrinsic symplectic immersion \(\widehat{\varphi}:\widehat{M}\to V\) and a local diffeomorphism \(\varepsilon:M\to \widehat{M}\) such that \(\varphi= \widehat{\varphi} \circ \varepsilon\). An immersion \(\varphi:M\to V\) is full if \(\varphi(M)\) is not contained in a proper affine subspace of \(V\). The next result of the authors states that, if there exists an extrinsic symplectic immersion of \(M\) into \(V\), then there exists also a full extrinsic symplectic immersion of \(M\) into a symplectic vector space which is unique up to equivalence. The construction is as follows. Let \(\varphi:M\to V\) be an extrinsic symplectic immersion such that \(0 \in \varphi(M)\). Let \(V'\) be the smallest subspace of \(V\) containing \(\varphi(M)\), denote by \(N \subset V'\) the null space of \(\Omega|_{V'}\), define \(V_0= V'/N\), and denote by \(\pi : V'\to V_0\) the canonical projection. Then \(\varphi_0= \pi \circ \varphi: M\to V_0\) is a full extrinsic symplectic immersion. As a consequence, one gets that an extrinsic symplectic immersion \(\varphi:M\to V\) is full if and only if the target space \(V\) is of smallest possible dimension.