Pontryagin forms on (4r-2)-manifolds and symplectic structures on the spaces of Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.03.005zbMATH Open1250.53075arXivmath/0507076OpenAlexW2011883581WikidataQ115356726 ScholiaQ115356726MaRDI QIDQ417654FDOQ417654

Authors: R. Ferreiro Pérez, Jaime Muñoz Masqué 

Publication date: 14 May 2012

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

Abstract: The Pontryagin forms on 1-jet bundle of Riemannian metrics, are shown to provide, in a natural way, diffeomorphism-invariant pre-symplectic structures on the space of Riemannian metrics for dimensions $n=4r-2$. The equivariant Pontryagin forms provide canonical moment maps for these structures. In dimension two, the symplectic reduction corresponding to the pre-symplectic form and its moment map attached to the first Pontryagin form, is proved to coincide with the Teichm"{u}ller space endowed with the Weil-Petersson symplectic form.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507076

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zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism invariancebundle of Riemannian metricsequivariant characteristic classespre-symplectic structureuniversal Pontryagin formsWeil-Petersson symplectic form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

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