Symplectic Yang-Mills theory, Ricci tensor, and connections

DOI10.1007/S00526-006-0077-2MaRDI QIDQ2641917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katharina Habermann, Lutz Habermann, Paul Rosenthal

Publication date 17 August 2007

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604553

symplectic connection symplectic Ricci tensor symplectic Yang-Mills functional

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: A Yang-Mills theory in a purely symplectic framework is developed. The corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations are derived and first integrals are given. We relate the results to the work of Bourgeois and Cahen on preferred symplectic connections.

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In the paper the authors study symplectic connections with torsion on an (almost) symplectic manifold \((M,\omega)\). They introduce the symplectic Ricci tensor sRic, which coincides with the Ricci tensor for any torsion-free symplectic connection \(\nabla\). Let \(E\) be a real vector bundle over \((M,\omega)\) and \( b\) be an almost symplectic structure on \(E\), i.e., \(b\in\Gamma (\wedge^2E)\). Then \(b\) defines a pairing in \(\Omega^k (M,\operatorname{End} E)\) and \(\Gamma(\operatorname{End} E)\) and a symplectic Hodge operator \(*:\Omega(M,\operatorname{End} E)\rightarrow \Omega(M,\operatorname{End} E)\) such that \(b(\alpha,\beta) \omega^{(n)}= b(\alpha\wedge*\beta)\). The authors investigate the functionals \(I_1(\nabla)= \frac12\int_M b(R^{\nabla},R^{\nabla}) \omega^{(n)}\) and \(I_2(\nabla)= \int_M b(\text{sRic}^{\nabla}, \text{sRic}^{\nabla})\omega^{(n)}\). It appears that if \(\omega\) is symplectic then \(I_1,I_2\) differ by a constant. A connection \(\nabla\) symplectic with respect to \(b\) is a critical point of the functional \(I_1\) if and only if \(d^{\nabla}*R^{\nabla}=0\). In case \(\omega\) is symplectic \(\nabla\) is a critical point of the functional \(I_2\) if and only if \(\nabla \text{sRic}^{\nabla}=0\).

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