Counting isotropic tangent lines of hypersurfaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2016.05.001zbMATH Open1341.53009arXiv1309.0994OpenAlexW1654681279WikidataQ115355678 ScholiaQ115355678MaRDI QIDQ288885FDOQ288885

Authors: Sergei Lanzat 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider the standard symplectic $(R{R}^{2n},omeg{a}_0)$, a point $pinR{R}^{2n}$ and an immersed closed orientable hypersurface $SigmasubsetR{R}^{2n}minusp$, all in general position. We study the following passage/tangency question: how many lines in $R{R}^{2n}$ pass through $p$ and tangent to $Sigma$ parallel to the 1-dimensional characteristic distribution $$ of $omeg{a}_0$. We count each such line with a certain sign, and present an explicit formula for their algebraic number. This number is invariant under regular homotopies in the class of a general position of the pair $(p,Sigma)$, but jumps (in a well-controlled way) when during a homotopy we pass a certain singular discriminant. It provides a low bound to the actual number of these isotropic lines.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0994

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zbMATH Keywords

Gauss mapshape operatoralmost contact manifoldsimmersed hypersurfacesisotropic lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Cites Work

• Riemannian geometry of contact and symplectic manifolds
• Counting real curves with passage/tangency conditions

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