Symplectomorphism Groups and Symplectic Topology

辛同胚群和辛拓扑

• 批准号: RGPIN-2014-06241
• 负责人: Pinsonnault, Martin
• 金额: $ 1.02万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=588892
• 关键词: Symplectomorphism; Groups; Symplectic; Topology

Symplectic geometry provides the mathematical framework of classical mechanics in its Hamiltonian formulation. It also underlies modern approaches to quantum theories and to General Relativity. During the past 25 years, the study of the interactions between classical and quantum systems, as well as the introduction of powerful geometrical and analytical techniques, has led to the discovery of new structures and phenomena peculiar to symplectic objects that have no counterparts in classical differential geometry and topology. A central problem in symplectic geometry is to understand the symmetries, also called symplectomorphisms, of symplectic spaces. The set of all symplectic symmetries of a given space is itself an infinite dimensional geometric object called the symplectomorphism group of the space. This group is a very rich geometric object that encodes all the properties of the underlying space. From a physical point of view, continuous families of symmetries of the phase space correspond to conserved quantities like energy, momentum, angular momentum, etc. Moreover, the time evolution of a classical physical system correspond to a continous path on the symplectomorphism group of the phase space. Consequently, general properties of symplectic transformations correspond to general properties of classical physical systems. Moreover, through "quantization" procedures, we often get insights into properties of quantum systems. Conversely, properties of quantum systems sometimes lead to surprizing predictions for classical systems through a procedure called "semi-classical approximation". In this research, I am especially interested in the homotopy-theoretical and geometric properties of symplectomorphism groups, with a view to applications to low dimensional geometry and to mathematical physics. I plan to further study the homotopy type of symplectomorphism groups of rational 4-manifolds, to determine the homotopy type of some spaces of symplectic and Lagrangian embeddings, to study symplectic group actions, and to explore the (very little understood) links between modern symplectic topology and quantum systems given by new quantization procedures that are based on intrinsic properties of symplectic transformations.

辛几何在其哈密顿公式中提供了经典力学的数学框架。它也是量子理论和广义相对论的现代方法的基础。在过去的 25 年里，对经典系统和量子系统之间相互作用的研究，以及强大的几何和分析技术的引入，导致了辛物体特有的新结构和现象的发现，这些结构和现象在经典微分中没有对应物几何和拓扑。 辛几何的一个中心问题是理解辛空间的对称性，也称为辛同胚。给定空间的所有辛对称性的集合本身就是一个无限维几何对象，称为空间的辛同胚群。该群是一个非常丰富的几何对象，它编码了底层空间的所有属性。从物理的角度来看，相空间的连续对称族对应于能量、动量、角动量等守恒量。此外，经典物理系统的时间演化对应于系统辛同胚群上的连续路径。相空间。因此，辛变换的一般性质对应于经典物理系统的一般性质。此外，通过“量子化”过程，我们经常可以深入了解量子系统的特性。相反，量子系统的特性有时会通过称为“半经典近似”的过程对经典系统做出令人惊讶的预测。 在这项研究中，我对辛同胚群的同伦理论和几何性质特别感兴趣，以期将其应用于低维几何和数学物理。我计划进一步研究有理 4 流形的辛同胚群的同伦类型，确定辛和拉格朗日嵌入的某些空间的同伦类型，研究辛群的行为，并探索现代辛之间的（很少被理解的）联系由基于辛变换的内在性质的新量化程序给出的拓扑和量子系统。