The Maslov class of some Legendre submanifolds

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(86)90010-0MaRDI QIDQ1089969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Izu Vaisman

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(86)90010-0

zbMATH Keywords

contact structureLegendre curvesLegendre submanifoldsMaslov class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15)

Review text

After some preparations the author computes the Maslov class in two (geometrically very interesting) situations, by using a differential- geometric technique. The examples considered are (a) Legendre curves on \(S^ 3\), with respect to any one of the three classical contact forms on \(S^ 3\); (b) (the main example) Legendre submanifolds, constructed with respect to the natural contact structure (induced by the Liouville 1- form) of the cotangent unit sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold. In case (b) a nice geometric characterization of the Maslov class is derived for flat Riemannian manifolds: then it is determined by the mean curvature vector, and it vanishes if the Legendre submanifold is minimal.

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