Parabolic conformally symplectic structures. I: Definition and distinguished connections

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2017-0018zbMATH Open1405.53042arXiv1605.01161OpenAlexW3105483444WikidataQ57408529 ScholiaQ57408529MaRDI QIDQ1748360FDOQ1748360

Authors: Tomáš Salač, Andreas Cap 

Publication date: 9 May 2018

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a class of first order G-structures, each of which has an underlying almost conformally symplectic structure. There is one such structure for each real simple Lie algebra which is not of type $C_n$ and admits a contact grading. We show that a structure of each of these types on a smooth manifold $M$ determines a canonical compatible linear connection on the tangent bundle $TM$. This connection is characterized by a normalization condition on its torsion. The algebraic background for this result is proved using Kostant's theorem on Lie algebra cohomology. For each type, we give an explicit description of both the geometric structure and the normalization condition. In particular, the torsion of the canonical connection naturally splits into two components, one of which is exactly the obstruction to the underlying structure being conformally symplectic. This article is the first in a series aiming at a construction of differential complexes naturally associated to these geometric structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01161

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical connectionalmost conformally symplectic structurespecial symplectic connectionexceptional symplectic holonomyfinite-order geometric structurefirst prolongation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Other connections (53B15)

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