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Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Given the Euclidean space R2n+2\R^{2n+2} endowed with a constant symplectic structure and the standard flat connection, and given a polynomial of degree 2 on that space, Baguis and Cahen have defined a reduction procedure which yields a symplectic manifold endowed with a Ricci-type connection. We observe that any symplectic manifold of dimension greater than 2 endowed with a symplectic connection of Ricci-type is locally given by a local version of such a reduction. We also consider the reverse of this reduction procedure, an induction procedure: we construct globally on a symplectic manifold endowed with a connection of Ricci-type (M,ω,)(M,\omega,\nabla) a circle or a line bundle which embeds in a flat symplectic manifold (P,μ,1)(P,\mu ,\nabla^1) as the zero set of a function whose third covariant derivative vanishes, in such a way that (M,ω,)(M,\omega,\nabla) is obtained by reduction from (P,μ,1)(P,\mu ,\nabla^1). We further develop the particular case of symmetric symplectic manifolds with Ricci-type connections.

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@article{arxiv.math/0310375,
  title  = {Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction},
  author = {Michel Cahen and Simone Gutt and Lorenz Schwachhoefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0310375},
  year   = {2007}
}