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Counting isotropic tangent lines of hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2016-05-11 v1 Geometric Topology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Consider the standard symplectic (\RR2n,ω0)(\RR^{2n}, \omega_0), a point p\RR2np\in\RR^{2n} and an immersed closed orientable hypersurface Σ\RR2n\minus{p}\Sigma\subset\RR^{2n}\minus\{p\}, all in general position. We study the following passage/tangency question: how many lines in \RR2n\RR^{2n} pass through pp and tangent to Σ\Sigma parallel to the 1-dimensional characteristic distribution ker(ω0TΣ)TΣ\ker\left(\omega_0\big|_{T\Sigma}\right)\subset T\Sigma of ω0\omega_0. 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 (p,Σ)(p, \Sigma), 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}
}