Semi-free Hamiltonian circle actions on 6-dimensional symplectic manifolds

Assume is a connected, compact 6-dimensional symplectic manifold equipped with a semi-free Hamiltonian circle action, such that the fixed point set consists of isolated points or compact orientable surfaces. We restrict attention to the case . We give a complete list of the possible manifolds, and determine their equivariant cohomology rings and equivariant Chern classes. Some of these manifolds are classified up to diffeomorphism. We also show the existence for a few cases.

     

Noncommutative Hamiltonian dynamics on foliated manifolds

First, we review the notion of a Poisson structure on a noncommutative algebra due to Block, Getzler and Xu, and we introduce a notion of a Hamiltonian vector field on a noncommutative Poisson algebra. Then we describe a Poisson structure on a noncommutative algebra associated with a transversely symplectic foliation and construct a class of Hamiltonian vector fields associated with this Poisson structure.     

Nilpotent flows of S1-invariant Hamiltonian systems on 4-dimensional symplectic manifolds

We investigate S¹-invariant Hamiltonian systems on compact 4-dimensional symplectic manifolds with free symplectic action of a circle. We show that, in a rather general case, such systems generate ergodic flows of types (quasiperiodic and nilpotent) on their isoenergetic surfaces. We solve the problem of straightening of these flows. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 122–140, January, 1997.     

Submersions on open symplectic manifolds

Let M be an open manifold with a symplectic form Ω, and N a manifold with dimN<dimM. We prove that submersions with symplectic fibres satisfy the h-principle. Such submersions define Dirac manifold structures on the given manifold. As an application to this result we show that CPn?CPk−1 admits a submersion into R2(2k−n) with symplectic fibres for n/2<k?n.     

On the construction of certain 6-dimensional symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian circle actions

Let be a connected, compact 6-dimensional symplectic manifold equipped with a semi-free Hamiltonian action such that the fixed point set consists of isolated points or surfaces. Assume dim . In an earlier paper, we defined a certain invariant of such spaces which consists of fixed point data and twist type, and we divided the possible values of these invariants into six ``types'. In this paper, we construct such manifolds with these ``types'. As a consequence, we have a precise list of the values of these invariants.

     

The dynamics of pseudographs in convex Hamiltonian systems

We study the evolution, under convex Hamiltonian flows on cotangent bundles of compact manifolds, of certain distinguished subsets of the phase space. These subsets are generalizations of Lagrangian graphs, which we call pseudographs. They emerge in a natural way from Fathi's weak KAM theory. By this method, we find various orbits which connect prescribed regions of the phase space. Our study was inspired by works of John Mather. As an application, we obtain the existence of diffusion in a large class of a priori unstable systems and provide a solution to the large gap problem. We hope that our method will have applications to more examples.

RéSUMé. Nous étudions l'évolution, par le flot d'un Hamiltonien convexe sur une variété compacte, de certains ensembles de l'espace des phases. Nous appelons pseudographes ces ensembles, qui sont des généralisations de graphes Lagrangiens apparaissant de manière naturelle dans la théorie KAM faible de Fathi. Par cette méthode, nous trouvons diverses orbites qui joignent des domaines donnés de l'espace des phases. Notre étude s'inspire de travaux de John Mather. Nous obtenons l'existence de diffusion dans une large classe de systèmes à priori instables comme application de cette méthode, qui permet de résoudre le probleme de l'écart entre les tores invariants. Nous espérons que la méthode s'appliquera à d'autres exemples.

     

The Hamiltonian dynamics over real hypersurfaces in Kaehler manifolds

Let X be a Kaehler manifold with complex dimension n. Let ωX be its Kaehler form. Let M be a strongly pseudo convex real hypersurface in X. For this hypersurface, the deformation theory of CR structures is successfully developed. And we find that H¹(M,T^′) (the T^′-valued Kohn-Rossi cohomology) is the Zariski tangent space of the versal family. In this paper, the geometrical meaning of H¹(M,O) is studied, and we propose to study displacements of the real hypersurface, which preserves the type of the differential form, ωX, over CR structures, on M, infinitesimally.     

Odd symplectic flag manifolds

We define the odd symplectic Grassmannians and flag manifolds, which are smooth projective varieties equipped with an action of the odd symplectic group, analogous to the usual symplectic Grassmannians and flag manifolds. Contrary to the latter, which are the flag manifolds of the symplectic group, the varieties we introduce are not homogeneous. We argue nevertheless that in many respects the odd symplectic Grassmannians and flag manifolds behave like homogeneous varieties; in support of this claim, we compute the automorphism group of the odd symplectic Grassmannians and we prove a Borel-Weil-type theorem for the odd symplectic group.     

Generalized Bergman kernels on symplectic manifolds

We study the asymptotic of the generalized Bergman kernels of the renormalized Bochner–Laplacian on high tensor powers of a positive line bundle on compact symplectic manifolds. To cite this article: X. Ma, G. Marinescu, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 339 (2004).     

Weakly Lefschetz symplectic manifolds

For a symplectic manifold, the harmonic cohomology of symplectic divisors (introduced by Donaldson, 1996) and of the more general symplectic zero loci (introduced by Auroux, 1997) are compared with that of its ambient space. We also study symplectic manifolds satisfying a weakly Lefschetz property, that is, the -Lefschetz property. In particular, we consider the symplectic blow-ups of the complex projective space along weakly Lefschetz symplectic submanifolds . As an application we construct, for each even integer , compact symplectic manifolds which are -Lefschetz but not -Lefschetz.

     

On symplectic half-flat manifolds

We construct examples of symplectic half-flat manifolds on compact quotients of solvable Lie groups. We prove that the Calabi-Yau structures are not rigid in the class of symplectic half-flat structures. Moreover, we provide an example of a compact 6-dimensional symplectic half-flat manifold whose real part of the complex volume form is d-exact. Finally we discuss the 4-dimensional case. This work was supported by the Projects M.I.U.R. “Geometric Properties of Real and Complex Manifolds”, “Riemannian Metrics and Differentiable Manifolds” and by G.N.S.A.G.A. of I.N.d.A.M.     

Generalized Bergman kernels on symplectic manifolds

We study the near diagonal asymptotic expansion of the generalized Bergman kernel of the renormalized Bochner-Laplacian on high tensor powers of a positive line bundle over a compact symplectic manifold. We show how to compute the coefficients of the expansion by recurrence and give a closed formula for the first two of them. As a consequence, we calculate the density of states function of the Bochner-Laplacian and establish a symplectic version of the convergence of the induced Fubini-Study metric. We also discuss generalizations of the asymptotic expansion for non-compact or singular manifolds as well as their applications. Our approach is inspired by the analytic localization techniques of Bismut and Lebeau.     

Pseudotoric structures on toric symplectic manifolds

We prove the existence of a rank-one pseudotoric structure on an arbitrary smooth toric symplectic manifold. As a consequence, we propose a method for constructing Chekanov-type nonstandard Lagrangian tori on arbitrary toric manifolds.     

Harmonic cohomology of symplectic manifolds

Mathieu (Math. Helv. 70 (1995) 1) introduced a canonic filtration in the de Rham cohomology of a symplectic manifold and proved, that the middle filtration space is the space of harmonic cohomology classes. We give an interpretation of the other filtration spaces, prove a Künneth theorem for harmonic cohomology, prove Poincaré duality for harmonic cohomology and show how surjectivity of certain Lefschetz type mappings is related to properties of the filtration. For a closed symplectic manifold M we also introduce symplectic invariants , and show if M is of dimension 2n with n even.     

Non-symplectic smooth circle actions on symplectic manifolds

We construct smooth circle actions on symplectic manifolds with non-symplectic fixed point sets or cyclic isotropy sets. All such actions are not compatible with any symplectic form on the manifold in question. In order to cover the case of non-symplectic fixed point sets, we use two smooth 4-manifolds (one symplectic and one non-symplectic) which become diffeomorphic after taking the products with the 2-sphere. The second type of actions is obtained by constructing smooth circle actions on spheres with non-symplectic cyclic isotropy sets, which (by the equivariant connected sum construction) we carry over from the spheres on products of 2-spheres. Moreover, by using the mapping torus construction, we show that periodic diffeomorphisms (isotopic to symplectomorphisms) of symplectic manifolds can provide examples of smooth fixed point free circle actions on symplectic manifolds with non-symplectic cyclic isotropy sets.     

Topological invariants of connections on symplectic manifolds

Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering (MFTI). Translated from Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 45–56, October–December, 1995.