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

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.03.005MaRDI QIDQ417654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Ferreiro Pérez, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 14 May 2012

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

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

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)

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.

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