Skip to main content
3 of 3
edited title
Igor Khavkine
  • 21.5k
  • 2
  • 60
  • 113

symplectic structure of tangent bundle of $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$

It is well known that $T\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ is diffeomorphic to $M= f^{-1}(1)$ where $f:\mathbb{C}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ is $f(z):=\sum_{i=1}^{n} z_{i}^{2}$. Two questions:

  1. Is $M$ a symplectic submanifold of $\mathbb{C}^n\sim \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ (with the standard symplectic structure)?

If the answer is affirmative, we can consider two symplectic structures for $T\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$. The first is the original structure of the tangent or cotangent bundle, the second one is the pull back structure of $M$.

  1. Are these structures equivalent?
Ali Taghavi
  • 356
  • 8
  • 31
  • 123