The cotangent bundle of a product #
The cotangent bundle of a product manifold is the product of the cotangent bundles:
T*(M × N) ≃ T*M × T*N
(TauCeti.CotangentBundle.prodDiffeomorph). A covector p at (x, y) goes to its restrictions
to the two factors, the covectors p ∘ dι₁ at x and p ∘ dι₂ at y, where ι₁ = (·, y) and
ι₂ = (x, ·) are the inclusions of the slices through (x, y). Conversely, covectors a at x
and b at y go to a ∘ d pr₁ + b ∘ d pr₂ at (x, y). Both directions are stated through
differentials of the product maps, so they do not depend on how the tangent spaces of a product
are implemented.
The identification is a smooth diffeomorphism. Smoothness of the restriction map is the smoothness
of pulling covectors back along a family of maps,
TauCeti.CotangentBundle.contMDiffAt_mk_comp_mfderiv_uncurry, since the slice inclusion ι₁
depends on the point y of the second factor. The comparison of the Liouville and canonical
symplectic forms of T*(M × N) with those of the factors is in
TauCeti.Geometry.Symplectic.Cotangent.Bundle.Prod.
References #
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, 2nd ed., Graduate Texts in Mathematics 218, Springer, 2013, Chapter 11.
The cotangent bundle of a product is the product of the cotangent bundles. The smooth
diffeomorphism T*(M × N) ≃ T*M × T*N restricting a covector p at (x, y) to the covectors
p ∘ dι₁ at x and p ∘ dι₂ at y, for the slice inclusions ι₁ = (·, y) and ι₂ = (x, ·).
Its inverse sends covectors a at x and b at y to a ∘ d pr₁ + b ∘ d pr₂.
Instances For
The first component of prodDiffeomorph z lies over the first component of the base point
of z.
The second component of prodDiffeomorph z lies over the second component of the base point
of z.
The first component of prodDiffeomorph z is the restriction of z along the horizontal slice
through z.proj.
The second component of prodDiffeomorph z is the restriction of z along the vertical slice
through z.proj.
The first component of prodDiffeomorph z evaluates a tangent vector v of M as z
evaluates its image under the differential of the slice inclusion x ↦ (x, y).
The second component of prodDiffeomorph z evaluates a tangent vector v of N as z
evaluates its image under the differential of the slice inclusion y ↦ (x, y).
The inverse of prodDiffeomorph lies over the pair of base points.
The inverse of prodDiffeomorph combines covectors a at x and b at y into the
covector a ∘ d pr₁ + b ∘ d pr₂ at (x, y).
prodDiffeomorph preserves the pairing of covectors with tangent vectors: a covector z
on M × N evaluates a tangent vector v as the sum of its two restrictions evaluated on the
components d pr₁ v and d pr₂ v.
prodDiffeomorph sends the zero covector at p = (x, y) to the pair of zero covectors at x
and y.
The inverse of prodDiffeomorph combines the zero covectors at x and y into the zero
covector at (x, y).