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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 16 5 b Solution by
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Use the normalization in which a projective line has area . On the affine chart of Complex projective space where , set and . Define the Fubini-Study form byOn another chart the corresponding potential differs by for a nowhere-zero holomorphic function , whose is zero. Thus these local differential forms glue to a global form. It is real and closed. Its Hermitian coefficient matrix is positive definite, since for the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesHence it is a Kähler form and in particular a symplectic form.
On a complex projective line with this is , whose total area is . Thus is the positive generator, equivalently . Another common normalization uses half this form and gives line area ; the scale must be carried consistently into symplectic reduction.
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