Metric area between energy and symplectic area #
For a compatible pair (ω, J) with associated metric g = ω(·, J ·), the metric area density of
a real-linear map F out of the standard complex line is the wedge norm
|F ∂s ∧ F ∂t|_g (TauCeti.SymplecticForm.wedgeNorm). It sits between the two densities of
TauCeti.Geometry.Symplectic.JHolomorphic.Energy.Basic:
ω(F ∂s, F ∂t) ≤ |F ∂s ∧ F ∂t|_g ≤ (g(F ∂s, F ∂s) + g(F ∂t, F ∂t)) / 2.
The first inequality is the Wirtinger inequality. It is an equality 0 = 0 when F ∂s and F ∂t
are linearly dependent (F has rank at most one); when F has rank two it is an equality exactly
when the image plane is a J-complex line with its complex orientation. The second is an equality
exactly when F is conformal for g. Both are equalities exactly when F is complex linear.
Integrating over a measure on the source gives the chain E(u) ≥ Area_g(u) ≥ ∫ u^*ω for the
energy TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineEnergy and the metric area
TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineArea of a field of differentials, with equality throughout
for an almost everywhere complex-linear differential, in particular for a constant-structure
J-holomorphic map. As there, the differential is kept explicit and all integrals are lower
Lebesgue integrals of positive parts.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.SymplecticForm.two_mul_wedgeNorm_le_stdComplexLineEnergyDensity: the pointwise inequality2 |F ∂s ∧ F ∂t|_g ≤ energyDensity F, with equality caseTauCeti.SymplecticForm.two_mul_wedgeNorm_eq_stdComplexLineEnergyDensity_ifffor conformalF.TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineArea: the metric area of a field of differentials.TauCeti.SymplecticForm.lintegral_symplecticForm_le_stdComplexLineArea:∫ u^*ω ≤ Area_g(u).TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineArea_le_stdComplexLineEnergy:Area_g(u) ≤ E(u).TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineArea_eq_stdComplexLineEnergyandTauCeti.SymplecticForm.fderiv_stdComplexLineArea_eq_stdComplexLineEnergy: equality for complex-linear differentials and for constant-structureJ-holomorphic maps.
References #
- D. McDuff and D. Salamon, J-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology, 2nd ed., AMS Colloquium Publications 52, 2012, Lemma 2.2.1.
Area is at most energy, pointwise. For a compatible pair, twice the metric area density
|F ∂s ∧ F ∂t|_g of a real-linear map out of the standard complex line is at most its energy
density.
Twice the metric area density equals the energy density exactly when the map is conformal
for the associated metric: F ∂s and F ∂t have the same length and are orthogonal.
The metric area of a field of real-linear maps out of the standard complex line: the lower
Lebesgue integral of the wedge norm |du ∂s ∧ du ∂t|_g for the associated form
g = ω(·, J ·). The source measure μ is arbitrary. For a compatible pair, Lebesgue measure on a
planar domain X, and the differential du of a C¹ immersion u, the area formula identifies
this with the area of the image surface counted with multiplicity, measured in g.
Instances For
The metric area of a differential field is the lower integral of its wedge norm.
The zero differential field has zero metric area.
Metric area for the zero source measure is zero.
Metric area depends only on the differential field almost everywhere.
Enlarging the source measure cannot decrease metric area.
Integrated Wirtinger inequality, area form. For a compatible pair, the integral of the positive symplectic area density is at most the metric area.
Area is at most energy. For a compatible pair, the metric area of a differential field is at most its energy.
For a compatible pair, a differential field that is complex linear almost everywhere has
metric area equal to its energy, and hence, by
TauCeti.SymplecticForm.stdComplexLineEnergy_eq_lintegral_symplecticForm, to the integral of its
symplectic area density.
For a compatible pair, a map that is constant-structure J-holomorphic almost everywhere has
metric area equal to its energy.