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Nonlinear Hodge flows in symplectic geometry

Differential Geometry 2026-01-14 v1 Analysis of PDEs Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Given a symplectic class [ω][\omega] on a four torus T4T^4 (or a K3K3 surface), a folklore problem in symplectic geometry is whether symplectic forms in [ω][\omega] are isotropic to each other. We introduce a family of nonlinear Hodge heat flows on compact symplectic four manifolds to approach this problem, which is an adaption of nonlinear Hodge theory in symplectic geometry. As a particular example, we study a conformal Hodge heat flow in detail. We prove a stability result of the flow near an almost Kahler structure (M,ω,g)(M, \omega, g). We also prove that, if logu|\nabla \log u| stays bounded along the flow, then the flow exists for all time for any initial symplectic form ρ[ω]\rho\in [\omega] and it converges to ω\omega smoothly along the flow with uniform control, where uu is the volume potential of ρ\rho.

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@article{arxiv.2310.03651,
  title  = {Nonlinear Hodge flows in symplectic geometry},
  author = {Weiyong He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03651},
  year   = {2026}
}
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