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Products of locally conformal symplectic manifolds

Symplectic Geometry 2024-01-29 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Given two locally conformal symplectic (LCS) structures on manifolds M1M_1 and M2M_2, we construct a natural R+\R^+-torsor of locally conformal symplectic structures on a certain covering space M1M2M_1 \boxplus M_2 of M1×M2M_1 \times M_2. As the smooth construction of M1M2M_1 \boxplus M_2 is natural from the perspective of flat line bundles, we use this language to phrase the LCS theory. This construction shares many properties with, and in a sense generalizes, the standard symplectic product. Notably, for a Hamiltonian isotopy ϕt\phi_t of an LCS manifold MM, there is an associated Lagrangian embedding Γ(ϕ1) ⁣:MMM\Gamma(\phi_1) \colon M \hookrightarrow M \boxplus M, in which certain fixed points of ϕ1\phi_1 are in bijection with intersection points of Γ(ϕ1)\Gamma(\phi_1) with the diagonal Δ=Γ(id)\Delta = \Gamma(\mathrm{id}). Using a Lagrangian intersection of result of the first author and E. Murphy, we may conclude that if ϕt\phi_t is a C0C^0-small Hamiltonian isotopy, then the number of fixed points of ϕ1\phi_1 is bounded below by the rank of the Novikov theory associated to the Lee class of the LCS structure on MM. Finally, we end the paper by constructing the suspension of a Lagrangian submanifold along a Hamiltonian isotopy in the LCS theory, again generalizing the symplectic setting.

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@article{arxiv.2401.14918,
  title  = {Products of locally conformal symplectic manifolds},
  author = {Baptiste Chantraine and Kevin Sackel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14918},
  year   = {2024}
}