Cotangent Bundle over Projective Space and the Manifold of Nondegenerate Null-Pairs

A nondegenerate null-pair of the real projective space consists of a point and of a hyperplane nonincident to this point. The manifold of all nondegenerate null-pairs carries a natural Kählerian structure of hyperbolic type and of constant nonzero holomorphic sectional curvature. In particular, is a symplectic manifold. We prove that is endowed with the structure of a fiber bundle over the projective space , whose typical fiber is an affine space. The vector space associated to a fiber of the bundle is naturally isomorphic to the cotangent space to . We also construct a global section of this bundle; this allows us to construct a diffeomorphism between the manifold of nondegenerate null-pairs and the cotangent bundle over the projective space. The main statement of the paper asserts that the explicit diffeomorphism is a symplectomorphism of the natural symplectic structure on to the canonical symplectic structure on .