Submanifolds of generalized complex manifolds

DOI10.4310/JSG.2004.V2.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ2386789zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Oren Ben-Bassat, Mitya Boyarchenko

Publication date 25 August 2005

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309013, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jsg/1118755324

zbMATH Keywords

generalized complex manifold Lagrangian submanifold symplectic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other complex differential geometry (53C56) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12)

Abstract: The main goal of our paper is the study of several classes of submanifolds of generalized complex manifolds. Along with the generalized complex submanifolds defined by Gualtieri and Hitchin (we call these ``generalized Lagrangian submanifolds in our paper), we introduce and study three other classes of submanifolds. For generalized complex manifolds that arise from complex (resp., symplectic) manifolds, all three classes specialize to complex (resp., symplectic) submanifolds. In general, however, all three classes are distinct. We discuss some interesting features of our theory of submanifolds, and illustrate them with a few nontrivial examples. We then support our ``symplectic/Lagrangian viewpoint on the submanifolds introduced by Gualtieri and Hitchin by defining the ``generalized complex category, modelled on the constructions of Guillemin-Sternberg and Weinstein. We argue that our approach may be useful for the quantization of generalized complex manifolds.

Review text

The notion of a generalized complex manifold was introduced by \textit{N. Hitchin} [Q. J. Math. 54, 281--308 (2003; Zbl 1076.32019); Geometry with B-fields, Lectures at the `Geometry, Topology, and Strings', Santa-Barbara, (2003)] and [\textit{M. Gualtieri}, Generalized complex geometry, Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford Univ. (2003)], which is the global notion corresponding to generalized complex vector spaces. Let \(V\) be a finite-dimensional real vector space and \(V^*\) its dual. The space \(V\oplus V^*\) has a canonical quadratic form \(Q\) with \(Q(v+f)=-f(v)\) for \(v\in V\) and \(f\in V^*\). Its linearization is a paring denoted by \(\langle \cdot, \cdot\rangle\). Then the space with an \({\mathbb R}\)-linear automorphism \(J\) of \(V\oplus V^*\) such that \(J^2=-1\) and \(J\) is orthogonal relative to \(\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle\) is called the generalized complex structure on \(V\). Apparently, the structure is an integration of two notions: complex structure and symplectic structure. This paper is devoted to a description of basic facts on generalized complex structures such as generalized complex subspaces and quotients, \(B\)-field transforms, generalized Lagrangean subspaces, etc., by clarifying the interplay of several related notions. One of the fundamental theorems is the classification theorem: every generalized complex structure is the \(B\)-field transform of a direct sum of a complex structure and a symplectic structure. The authors then raise the question how to define generalized complex submanifolds. First, a generalized almost complex structure is defined and then an algebraic condition of integrability is described, from which a canonical definition of submanifold structure is derived. Several examples are provided, which may be useful for further study.

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