Counting isotropic tangent lines of hypersurfaces
Differential Geometry
2016-05-11 v1 Geometric Topology
Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
Consider the standard symplectic , a point and an immersed closed orientable hypersurface , all in general position. We study the following passage/tangency question: how many lines in pass through and tangent to parallel to the 1-dimensional characteristic distribution of . We count each such line with a certain sign, and present an explicit formula for their algebraic number. This number is invariant under regular homotopies in the class of a general position of the pair , but jumps (in a well-controlled way) when during a homotopy we pass a certain singular discriminant. It provides a low bound to the actual number of these isotropic lines.
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@article{arxiv.1309.0994,
title = {Counting isotropic tangent lines of hypersurfaces},
author = {Sergei Lanzat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0994},
year = {2016}
}