On properly essential classical conformal diffeomorphism groups

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9304-YMaRDI QIDQ420597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Müller, Peter Spaeth

Publication date 22 May 2012

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5861

zbMATH Keywords

Banyaga's conformal invariantclassical conformal diffeomorphism groupclosed Reeb orbitcohomological equationcomplete Liouville vector fieldconformal symplectic structurecontact invariantcontact structureessential and properly essential conformal groupGottschalk-Hedlund theoremorbit of tensor fieldsymplectic involution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: We prove that various classical conformal diffeomorphism groups, which are known to be essential [1], are in fact properly essential. This is a consequence of a local criterion on a conformal diffeomorphism in the form of a cohomological equation. Furthermore, we study the orbit of a tensor field under the action of the conformal diffeomorphism group for these classical conformal structures. On every closed contact manifold, we find conformal contact forms that are not diffeomorphic.

Review text

\textit{A. Banyaga} [J. Geom. 68, No. 1--2, 10--15 (2000; Zbl 0977.53027)] proved that many classical conformal structures carry essential conformal groups. The present paper shows that their conformal groups are in fact properly essential. The main result is Theorem 2: The conformal diffeomorphism groups of the following conformal manifolds are properly essential. i) \((M, \xi )\) a contact manifold. ii) \((M, [\omega ])\) a conformal symplectic manifold that supports a Liouville vector field. iii) \((M, \sigma )\) an oriented manifold.

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