Homological nature of the Solomon functional [049K]
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Homological nature of the Solomon functional
Write the Liouville 1-form as , so , and the potential of the immersed Lagrangian as , so . We consider the potential as part of the brane data, so adding a constant to is viewed as a different Lagrangian brane. We shall consider a path of such Lagrangians , with associated Hamiltonian functions , so there is a preferred way to parallel transport , as recalled below.
Lemma 3.3.
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Proof.
Let be the Hamiltonian vector field along associated to , namely . We calculate the time derivative of : along
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so there is a preferred parallel transport of along the path ,
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Hence
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Now by the Cartan formula and the closedness of ,
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so after integration by part,
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Combining the above,
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Integrating in gives the result.
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We observe that by the Kähler condition , so
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This means the term is a homological quantity, in the sense that
we can replace by any compactly supported -current with , which would automatically satisfy , since for Stein manifolds. In particular, this explains Solomon’s theorem that his functional is invariant under Hamiltonian deformations of the path of Lagrangians. The advantage of our homological interpretation is to allow more general currents , which in particular can come from families of holomorphic curves.