University of Toronto's Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Monday February 7, 2005, 14:10--15:00
SS 5017A
Juan-Carlos Alvarez
Polytechnic University Brooklyn
Geometry of curves of Lagrangian subspaces and connections for
convex Hamiltonian systems
Abstract:
The geometry of curves in the Lagrangian Grassmannian under the
action of the linear symplectic
group is delightfully simple and holds the key to understanding the
geometry behind the theory of connections
for Finsler spaces and convex Hamiltonian systems.