Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction
Abstract
Given the Euclidean space 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 a circle or a line bundle which embeds in a flat symplectic manifold as the zero set of a function whose third covariant derivative vanishes, in such a way that is obtained by reduction from . 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}
}