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Symplectic Dolbeault Operators on K\"ahler Manifolds

Symplectic Geometry 2013-07-23 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

For a K\"ahler Manifold MM, the "symplectic Dolbeault operators" are defined using the symplectic spinors and associated Dirac operators, in complete analogy to how the usual Dolbeault operators, ˉ\bar\partial and ˉ\bar\partial^*, arise from Dirac operators on the canonical complex spinors on MM. We give special attention to two special classes of K\"ahler manifolds: Riemann surfaces and flag manifolds (G/TG/T for GG a simply-connected compact semisimple Lie group and TT a maximal torus). In the case of flag manifolds, we work with the Hermitian structure induced by the Killing form and a choice of positive roots (this is actually not a K\"ahler structure but is a K\"ahler with torsion (KT) structure). For Riemann surfaces the symplectic Dolbeault operators are elliptic and we compute their indices. In the case of flag manifolds, we will see that the representation theory of GG plays a role and that these operators can be used to distinguish (as Hermitian manifolds) between the flag manifolds corresponding to the Lie algebras BnB_n and CnC_n. We give a thorough analysis of these operators on \CP1\C P^1 (the intersection of these classes of spaces), where the symplectic Dolbeault operators have an especially interesting structure.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0248,
  title  = {Symplectic Dolbeault Operators on K\"ahler Manifolds},
  author = {Eric O. Korman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0248},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

26 pages. This version fixes a mistake in the flag manifolds section. The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-013-9369-x, erratum at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-013-9384-y