Coisotropic submanifold 2026-10-05
A coisotropic submanifold satisfies , where the superscript denotes the symplectic orthogonal complement. Every hypersurface of a symplectic manifold is coisotropic.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 140 2 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Let and let and be the two eigenspaces. The involution identity gives a direct sum, sinceFor in either one of these eigenspaces, the anti-symplectic involution identity impliesso both are isotropic subspaces of a symplectic vector space. Such a subspace has dimension at most : and the nondegenerate bilinear form gives , where is the symplectic orthogonal complement. As their dimensions add to , both have dimension . Therefore
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 140 6 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
On , the diagonal fundamental vector field is nonzero, since the fixed-point set lies at moment map values and . The nondegenerate bilinear form and imply , so is a regular value. By the regular level set theorem, is a three-dimensional embedded submanifold of the four-dimensional Complex projective plane.
At , set . Then for every , so , the symplectic orthogonal complement. This complement is one-dimensional and , givingThus the level set is a coisotropic submanifold, neither an isotropic submanifold nor a Lagrangian submanifold. Indeed an isotropic subspace of a symplectic vector space in dimension four has dimension at most two, whereas . Its characteristic line field is generated by the diagonal circle action.