Symplectic categories

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DOI10.4171/PM/1866zbMATH Open1193.53173arXiv0911.4133OpenAlexW3037188676MaRDI QIDQ973682FDOQ973682


Authors: Alan Weinstein Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 June 2010

Published in: Portugaliae Mathematica. Nova Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantization problems suggest that the category of symplectic manifolds and symplectomorphisms be augmented by the inclusion of canonical relations as morphisms. These relations compose well when a transversality condition is satisfied, but the failure of the most general compositions to be smooth manifolds means that the canonical relations do not comprise the morphisms of a category. We discuss several existing and potential remedies to the nontransversality problem. Some of these involve restriction to classes of lagrangian submanifolds for which the transversality property automatically holds. Others involve allowing lagrangian "objects" more general than submanifolds.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4133




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