Infinite Dimensional Complex Symplectic Spaces

Infinite Dimensional Complex Symplectic Spaces
Author: William Norrie Everitt
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2004
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821835459

Complex symplectic spaces are non-trivial generalizations of the real symplectic spaces of classical analytical dynamics. This title presents a self-contained investigation of general complex symplectic spaces, and their Lagrangian subspaces, regardless of the finite or infinite dimensionality.

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry

Lectures on Symplectic Geometry
Author: Ana Cannas da Silva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-10-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 354045330X

The goal of these notes is to provide a fast introduction to symplectic geometry for graduate students with some knowledge of differential geometry, de Rham theory and classical Lie groups. This text addresses symplectomorphisms, local forms, contact manifolds, compatible almost complex structures, Kaehler manifolds, hamiltonian mechanics, moment maps, symplectic reduction and symplectic toric manifolds. It contains guided problems, called homework, designed to complement the exposition or extend the reader's understanding. There are by now excellent references on symplectic geometry, a subset of which is in the bibliography of this book. However, the most efficient introduction to a subject is often a short elementary treatment, and these notes attempt to serve that purpose. This text provides a taste of areas of current research and will prepare the reader to explore recent papers and extensive books on symplectic geometry where the pace is much faster. For this reprint numerous corrections and clarifications have been made, and the layout has been improved.

Multi-Interval Linear Ordinary Boundary Value Problems and Complex Symplectic Algebra

Multi-Interval Linear Ordinary Boundary Value Problems and Complex Symplectic Algebra
Author: William Norrie Everitt
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2001
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821826697

A multi-interval quasi-differential system $\{I_{r},M_{r},w_{r}:r\in\Omega\}$ consists of a collection of real intervals, $\{I_{r}\}$, as indexed by a finite, or possibly infinite index set $\Omega$ (where $\mathrm{card} (\Omega)\geq\aleph_{0}$ is permissible), on which are assigned ordinary or quasi-differential expressions $M_{r}$ generating unbounded operators in the Hilbert function spaces $L_{r}^{2}\equiv L^{2}(I_{r};w_{r})$, where $w_{r}$ are given, non-negative weight functions. For each fixed $r\in\Omega$ assume that $M_{r}$ is Lagrange symmetric (formally self-adjoint) on $I_{r}$ and hence specifies minimal and maximal closed operators $T_{0,r}$ and $T_{1,r}$, respectively, in $L_{r}^{2}$. However the theory does not require that the corresponding deficiency indices $d_{r}^{-}$ and $d_{r}^{+}$ of $T_{0,r}$ are equal (e. g. the symplectic excess $Ex_{r}=d_{r}^{+}-d_{r}^{-}\neq 0$), in which case there will not exist any self-adjoint extensions of $T_{0,r}$ in $L_{r}^{2}$. In this paper a system Hilbert space $\mathbf{H}:=\sum_{r\,\in\,\Omega}\oplus L_{r}^{2}$ is defined (even for non-countable $\Omega$) with corresponding minimal and maximal system operators $\mathbf{T}_{0}$ and $\mathbf{T}_{1}$ in $\mathbf{H}$. Then the system deficiency indices $\mathbf{d}^{\pm} =\sum_{r\,\in\,\Omega}d_{r}^{\pm}$ are equal (system symplectic excess $Ex=0$), if and only if there exist self-adjoint extensions $\mathbf{T}$ of $\mathbf{T}_{0}$ in $\mathbf{H}$. The existence is shown of a natural bijective correspondence between the set of all such self-adjoint extensions $\mathbf{T}$ of $\mathbf{T}_{0}$, and the set of all complete Lagrangian subspaces $\mathsf{L}$ of the system boundary complex symplectic space $\mathsf{S}=\mathbf{D(T}_{1})/\mathbf{D(T}_{0})$. This result generalizes the earlier symplectic version of the celebrated GKN-Theorem for single interval systems to multi-interval systems. Examples of such complete Lagrangians, for both finite and infinite dimensional complex symplectic $\mathsf{S}$, illuminate new phenoma for the boundary value problems of multi-interval systems. These concepts have applications to many-particle systems of quantum mechanics, and to other physical problems.

Elliptic Partial Differential Operators and Symplectic Algebra

Elliptic Partial Differential Operators and Symplectic Algebra
Author: William Norrie Everitt
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821832352

This investigation introduces a new description and classification for the set of all self-adjoint operators (not just those defined by differential boundary conditions) which are generated by a linear elliptic partial differential expression $A(\mathbf{x}, D)=\sum_{0\, \leq\, \left s\right \, \leq\,2m}a_{s} (\mathbf{x})D DEGREES{s}\;\text{for all}\;\mathbf{x}\in\Omega$ in a region $\Omega$, with compact closure $\overline{\Omega}$ and $C DEGREES{\infty }$-smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$, in Euclidean space $\mathbb{E} DEGREES{r}$ $(r\geq2).$ The order $2m\geq2$ and the spatial dimensio

Boundary Value Problems and Symplectic Algebra for Ordinary Differential and Quasi-differential Operators

Boundary Value Problems and Symplectic Algebra for Ordinary Differential and Quasi-differential Operators
Author: William Norrie Everitt
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821810804

In the classical theory of self-adjoint boundary value problems for linear ordinary differential operators there is a fundamental, but rather mysterious, interplay between the symmetric (conjugate) bilinear scalar product of the basic Hilbert space and the skew-symmetric boundary form of the associated differential expression. This book presents a new conceptual framework, leading to an effective structured method, for analysing and classifying all such self-adjoint boundary conditions. The program is carried out by introducing innovative new mathematical structures which relate the Hilbert space to a complex symplectic space. This work offers the first systematic detailed treatment in the literature of these two topics: complex symplectic spaces--their geometry and linear algebra--and quasi-differential operators.

The Beilinson Complex and Canonical Rings of Irregular Surfaces

The Beilinson Complex and Canonical Rings of Irregular Surfaces
Author: Alberto Canonaco
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821841939

An important theorem by Beilinson describes the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on $\mathbb{P n$, yielding in particular a resolution of every coherent sheaf on $\mathbb{P n$ in terms of the vector bundles $\Omega {\mathbb{P n j(j)$ for $0\le j\le n$. This theorem is here extended to weighted projective spaces. To this purpose we consider, instead of the usual category of coherent sheaves on $\mathbb{P ({\rm w )$ (the weighted projective space of weights $\rm w=({\rm w 0,\dots,{\rm w n)$), a suitable category of graded coherent sheaves (the two categories are equivalent if and only if ${\rm w 0=\cdots={\rm w n=1$, i.e. $\mathbb{P ({\rm w )= \mathbb{P n$), obtained by endowing $\mathbb{P ({\rm w )$ with a natural graded structure sheaf. The resulting graded ringed space $\overline{\mathbb{P ({\rm w )$ is an example of graded scheme (in chapter 1 graded schemes are defined and studied in some greater generality than is needed in the rest of the work). Then in chapter 2 we prove This weighted version of Beilinson's theorem is then applied in chapter 3 to prove a structure theorem for good birational weighted canonical projections of surfaces of general type (i.e., for morphisms, which are birational onto the image, from a minimal surface of general type $S$ into a $3$-dimensional $\mathbb{P ({\rm w )$, induced by $4$ sections $\sigma i\in H0(S,\mathcal{O S({\rm w iK S))$). This is a generalization of a theorem by Catanese and Schreyer (who treated the case of projections into $\mathbb{P 3$), and is mainly interesting for irregular surfaces, since in the regular case a similar but simpler result (due to Catanese) was already known. The theorem essentially states that giving a good birational weighted canonical projection is equivalent to giving a symmetric morphism of (graded) vector bundles on $\overline{\mathbb{P ({\rm w )$, satisfying some suitable conditions. Such a morphism is then explicitly determined in chapter 4 for a family of surfaces with numerical invariant

Higher Complex Torsion and the Framing Principle

Higher Complex Torsion and the Framing Principle
Author: Kiyoshi Igusa
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821837737

Intends to prove that higher Franz-Reidemeister (FR) torsion satisfies the transfer property and a formula known as the 'Framing Principle' in full generality. This title uses these properties to compute the higher FR-torsion for various smooth bundles with oriented closed even dimensional manifold fibers.

Kahler Spaces, Nilpotent Orbits, and Singular Reduction

Kahler Spaces, Nilpotent Orbits, and Singular Reduction
Author: Johannes Huebschmann
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2004
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821835726

For a stratified symplectic space, a suitable concept of stratified Kahler polarization encapsulates Kahler polarizations on the strata and the behaviour of the polarizations across the strata and leads to the notion of stratified Kahler space which establishes an intimate relationship between nilpotent orbits, singular reduction, invariant theory, reductive dual pairs, Jordan triple systems, symmetric domains, and pre-homogeneous spaces: The closure of a holomorphic nilpotent orbit or, equivalently, the closure of the stratum of the associated pre-homogeneous space of parabolic type carries a (positive) normal Kahler structure. In the world of singular Poisson geometry, the closures of principal holomorphic nilpotent orbits, positive definite hermitian JTS's, and certain pre-homogeneous spaces appear as different incarnations of the same structure. The closure of the principal holomorphic nilpotent orbit arises from a semisimple holomorphic orbit by contraction. Symplectic reduction carries a positive Kahler manifold to a positive normal Kahler space in such a way that the sheaf of germs of polarized functions coincides with the ordinary sheaf of germs of holomorphic functions. Symplectic reduction establishes a close relationship between singular reduced spaces and nilpotent orbits of the dual groups. Projectivization of holomorphic nilpotent orbits yields exotic (positive) stratified Kahler structures on complex projective spaces and on certain complex projective varieties including complex projective quadrics. The space of (in general twisted) representations of the fundamental group of a closed surface in a compact Lie group or, equivalently, a moduli space of central Yang-Mills connections on a principal bundle over a surface, inherits a (positive) normal (stratified) Kahler structure. Physical examples are provided by certain reduced spaces arising from angular momentum zero.

Weil-Petersson Metric on the Universal Teichmuller Space

Weil-Petersson Metric on the Universal Teichmuller Space
Author: Leon Armenovich Takhtadzhi︠a︡n
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821839365

In this memoir, we prove that the universal Teichmuller space $T(1)$ carries a new structure of a complex Hilbert manifold and show that the connected component of the identity of $T(1)$ -- the Hilbert submanifold $T {0 (1)$ -- is a topological group. We define a Weil-Petersson metric on $T(1)$ by Hilbert space inner products on tangent spaces, compute its Riemann curvature tensor, and show that $T(1)$ is a Kahler-Einstein manifold with negative Ricci and sectional curvatures. We introduce and compute Mumford-Miller-Morita characteristic forms for the vertical tangent bundle of the universal Teichmuller curve fibration over the universal Teichmuller space. As an application, we derive Wolpert curvature formulas for the finite-dimensional Teichmuller spaces from the formulas for the universal Teichmuller space. We study in detail the Hilbert manifold structure on $T {0 (1)$ and characterize points on $T {0 (1)$ in terms of Bers and pre-Bers embeddings by proving that the Grunsky operators $B {1 $ and The results of this memoir were presented in our e-prints: Weil-Petersson metric on the universal Teichmuller space I. Curvature properties and Chern forms, arXiv:math.CV/0312172 (2003), and Weil-Petersson metric on the universal Teichmuller space II. Kahler potential and period mapping, arXiv:math.CV/0406408 (2004).

Geometric Quantization

Geometric Quantization
Author: Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1992
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780198502708

The geometric approach to quantization was introduced by Konstant and Souriau more than 20 years ago. It has given valuable and lasting insights into the relationship between classical and quantum systems, and continues to be a popular research topic. The ideas have proved useful in pure mathematics, notably in representation theory, as well as in theoretical physics. The most recent applications have been in conformal field theory and in the Jones-Witten theory of knots. The successful original edition of this book was published in 1980. Now it has been completely revised and extensively rewritten. The presentation has been simplified and many new examples have been added. The material on field theory has been expanded.