If in de Rham cohomology, a twisted cotangent symplectic form has no Lagrangian submanifold whose projection is a diffeomorphism onto the entire base. Such a submanifold would be a global one-form graph, and the twisted Lagrangian graph criterion would make exact.
Graph of a differential one-form 2026-10-07
A differential one-form is a smooth section of a vector bundle . Its graph is its image as a section, and the projection restricts to a diffeomorphism onto . Pullback of the Liouville one-form by that section equals , making the twisted Lagrangian graph criterion immediate.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 15 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The differential one-form defines a smooth section of a vector bundle, and its one-form graph is an embedded copy of because . The defining property of the Liouville one-form gives . ConsequentlyThe one-form graph has dimension , half the dimension of the cotangent bundle. It is therefore a Lagrangian submanifold precisely when this pullback of a differential form vanishes:This is the twisted Lagrangian graph criterion.
Now suppose the projection restricts to a diffeomorphism on a Lagrangian submanifold . Its inverse followed by the inclusion defines a smooth section , hence a global differential one-form with image . The criterion forces , so its class in de Rham cohomology is zero. Thus rules out every such Lagrangian section. This cohomological obstruction to a Lagrangian section concerns graphs over the entire base; it does not claim that all Lagrangian submanifolds are absent.