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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 140 2 c Solution by
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For , differentiation gives and . Thus is an anti-symplectic involution of the symplectic vector space . By part (a), its eigenspace is a Lagrangian subspace.
In the local manifold chart supplied in the question, is linear, so its fixed-point set is the intersection of the chart with this eigenspace. Therefore the fixed-point set is an embedded submanifold andEvery such tangent space has half the ambient dimension and the symplectic form vanishes on it. Hence every nonempty fixed-point set is a Lagrangian submanifold. The fixed-point set itself need not be connected.
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