Remarks on symplectic sectional curvature

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2016.11.001MaRDI QIDQ730455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel J. F. Fox

Publication date 28 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05898

zbMATH Keywords

Kähler manifoldsymplectic connectionsymplectic sectional curvaturesymplectomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: In [11], I. M. Gelfand, V. Retakh, and M. Shubin defined the symplectic sectional curvature of a torsion-free connection preserving a symplectic form. The present article defines the corresponding notion of constant symplectic sectional curvature and characterizes this notion in terms of the curvature tensor of the symplectic connection and its covariant derivatives. Some relations between various more general conditions on the symplectic sectional curvature and the geometry of the symplectic connection or that induced on a symplectic submanifold are explored as well.

Review text

Unlike the Riemannian case, symplectic manifolds have no local symplectomorphism invariants like curvature. However, in [Adv. Math. 136, No. 1, 104--140, Art. No. AI981727 (1998; Zbl 0945.53047)] \textit{I. M. Gelfand} et al. defined the symplectic sectional curvature of a torsion-free connection preserving a symplectic form. The author defines and explores constant symplectic sectional curvature manifolds in terms of the curvature of the symplectic manifold. The article is clearly written and explores interesting geometric matters, such as non-positive sectional curvature, isotropic sectional curvature, vanishing sectional curvature, indefinite sectional curvature.

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