Symplectic capacities coinciding on convex sets in the standard symplectic vector space are extended to any subsets of symplectic manifolds. It is shown that, using embeddings of non-smooth convex sets and a product formula, calculations of some capacities become very simple. Moreover, it is proved that there exist such capacities which are distinct and that there are star-shaped domains diffeomorphic to the ball but not symplectomorphic to any convex set.
A variational principle introduced to select some symplectic connections leads to field equations which, in the case of the Levi Civita connection of Kähler manifolds, are equivalent to the condition that the Ricci tensor is parallel. This condition, which is stronger than the field equations, is studied in a purely symplectic framework.
Let be a Kähler surface and be a closed symplectic surface which is smoothly immersed in . Let be the Kähler angle of in . We first deduce the Euler-Lagrange equation of the functional in the class of symplectic surfaces. It is , where is the mean curvature vector of in , is the complex structure compatible with the Kähler form in , which is an elliptic equation. We call such a surface a symplectic critical surface. We show that, if is a Kähler-Einstein surface with nonnegative...
Let X be a hyperkähler manifold deformation equivalent to the Hilbert square of a K3 surface and let φ be an involution preserving the symplectic form. We prove that the fixed locus of φ consists of 28 isolated points and one K3 surface, and moreover that the anti-invariant lattice of the induced involution on H 2(X, ℤ) is isomorphic to E 8(−2). Finally we show that any couple consisting of one such manifold and a symplectic involution on it can be deformed into a couple consisting of the Hilbert...
Let be a symplectic manifold admitting a metaplectic structure (a symplectic analogue of the Riemannian spin structure) and a torsion-free symplectic connection . Symplectic Killing spinor fields for this structure are sections of the symplectic spinor bundle satisfying a certain first order partial differential equation and they are the main object of this paper. We derive a necessary condition which has to be satisfied by a symplectic Killing spinor field. Using this condition one may easily...
Summary: For a large class of classical field models used for realistic quantum field theoretic models, an infinite-dimensional supermanifold of classical solutions in Minkowski space can be constructed. This solution supermanifold carries a natural symplectic structure; the resulting Poisson brackets between the field strengths are the classical prototypes of the canonical (anti-) commutation relations. Moreover, we discuss symmetries and the Noether theorem in this context.
Exterior differential forms with values in the (Kostant’s) symplectic spinor bundle on a manifold with a given metaplectic structure are decomposed into invariant subspaces. Projections to these invariant subspaces of a covariant derivative associated to a torsion-free symplectic connection are described.