Monday, 16 May 2011

sg.symplectic geometry - To what extent can I think of a Lagrangian fibration in a symplectic manifold as T*N?

Dear Theo Johnson-Freyd, I hope to have at least partially understood the content of your question, and that my answer could be useful.



0.Setting and specification of the terminology.
In a symplectic 2n-dimensional manifold (M,omega), let be given a lagrangian foliation mathcalF, i.e. a foliation of M whose leaves are lagrangian w.r.t. omega.
(Instead, I mean a lagrangian fibration of (M,omega) as a surjective summersion f:MtoB whose fibers are lagrangian w.r.t. omega. Any fibration determines a foliation but the converse is not true. The difference will be immaterial in my point(1), but not so in my point(2).)



1.Local Existence of lagrangian submanifolds transversal to mathcalF.
For any pinM, there exists a lagrangian submanifold of (M,omega) which passes through p and is transversal to mathcalF.



Infact, for any pinM, there exists a chart (U,phi) for M centered at p, such that:
omega=sumni=1dphiiwedgedphin+i,
the restriction of mathcalF on U is generated by fracpartialpartialphin+1,ldots,fracpartialpartialphi2n,
and consequently phin+1=ldots=phi2n=0 is a local lagrangian submanifold of (M,omega) passing through p and transverval to mathcalF.



This is just the Caratheodory-Jacobi-Lie theorem, applied starting with a system dphi1,ldots,dphin of 1-forms which locally generates the distribution corresponding to the lagrangian foliation mathcalF.



2. A relative globalization.
If L, a lagrangian submanifold of (M,omega), is transversal to mathcalF, then there exists a diffeomorphism f from an open neigborhood of L in M onto an open set in TL such that:
f|L is the zero section of tauastL:TastLtoL,
fastomega is the canonical symplectic on TastL,
and f takes the leaves of mathcalF in the fibers of tauastL.



This is just Theorem 7.1 in "Symplectic Manifolds and their Lagrangian submanifolds" of A.Weinstein.

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