The Liouville phenomenon in the deformation problem of coisotropics

dc.creatorKieserman, Noah
dc.date2008-05-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:41:03Z
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dc.descriptionThe work of Oh and Park ([OP]) on the deformation problem of coisotropic submanifolds opened the possibility of studying a large and interesting class of foliations with some explicit geometric tools. These tools assemble into the structure of an L-infinity algebra on the shifted foliation complex (Ω^*[1](\fol), d_\fol), which allows a concise description of deformations in terms of a Maurer-Cartan equation. Infinitesimal deformations are given by d_\fol-closed forms, and the relation between infinitesimal deformations and full deformations can be studied in terms of obstruction classes lying in the foliation cohomology H^*_\fol. Closely related to the foliation cohomology is Haefliger's group Ω^*_c(T/H), an under-appreciated model for the leaf space of a foliation. We make integral use of this group in showing solvability and unsolvability of the obstruction equations. We also show the L-infinity apparatus to be capable of detecting the Liouville/diophantine distinction of KAM theory, and argue for the greater significance of Haefliger's integration-over-leaves map in passing this fine structure to a geometric model for the leaf space.
dc.description27 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2468
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2468
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161691
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subject57R30; 70G45; 32G10
dc.titleThe Liouville phenomenon in the deformation problem of coisotropics
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