Enlarging the Hamiltonian group

DOI10.4310/JSG.2005.V3.N4.A1zbMATH1109.53078MaRDI QIDQ862190FDOQ862190

Authors Dusa McDuff

Publication date 5 February 2007

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503268

zbMATH Keywords

symplectomorphism groupconnection formflux homomorphismKotschick-Morita extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: This paper investigates ways to enlarge the Hamiltonian subgroup Ham of the symplectomorphism group Symp(M) of the symplectic manifold (M, omega) to a group that both intersects every connected component of Symp(M) and characterizes symplectic bundles with fiber M and closed connection form. As a consequence, it is shown that bundles with closed connection form are stable under appropriate small perturbations of the symplectic form. Further, the manifold (M,omega) has the property that every symplectic M-bundle has a closed connection form if and only if the flux group vanishes and the flux homomorphism extends to a crossed homomorphism defined on the whole group Symp(M). The latter condition is equivalent to saying that a connected component of the commutator subgroup [Symp,Symp] intersects the identity component of Symp only if it also intersects Ham. It is not yet clear when this condition is satisfied. We show that if the symplectic form vanishes on 2-tori the flux homomorphism extends to the subgroup of Symp acting trivially on pi_1(M). We also give an explicit formula for the Kotschick--Morita extension of Flux in the monotone case. The results in this paper belong to the realm of soft symplectic topology, but raise some questions that may need hard methods to answer.

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