On almost Poisson commutativity in dimension two

DOI10.3934/ERA.2010.17.155MaRDI QIDQ617665zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frol Zapolsky

Publication date 21 January 2011

Published in Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0870

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson bracketsurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: Consider the following question: given two functions on a symplectic manifold whose Poisson bracket is small, is it possible to approximate them in the $C^0$ norm by commuting functions? We give a positive answer in dimension two, as a particular case of a more general statement which applies to functions on a manifold with a volume form. This result is based on a lemma in the spirit of geometric measure theory. We give some immediate applications to function theory and the theory of quasi-states on surfaces with area forms.

Review text

The author proves that \(n\) smooth functions on a closed \(n\)-dimensional manifold with a volume form, whose bracket is small (in the \(L^1\)-norm), can be approximated in the uniform norm by commuting smooth functions. For the particular case of a closed surface with an area form, two continuous functions Poisson commute if and only if they can be approximated in the uniform norm by Poisson commuting smooth functions. Moreover, a consequence of this in the theory of quasi-states is that, in this case, a quasi-state is linear on Poisson commutative subspaces of all smooth functions.

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