Polarizations from complementary isotropic subspaces #
A finite-dimensional nondegenerate quadratic space which is the direct sum of two totally isotropic
subspaces W and W' is polarized by them, with no orthogonal remainder: the polar form pairs
W' perfectly with W. This file packages that observation as a constructor of
TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData, so that a polarization whose two summands are given by a formula
(for instance the two eigenspaces of a complexified orthogonal complex structure) can be produced
from the isotropy and the complementarity of the summands alone.
The perfect pairing is the only nonformal field. A vector of W' pairing to zero with W also
pairs to zero with the isotropic W', hence with all of V = W ⊕ W'; being isotropic, it lies in
the radical, which vanishes. So the polar pairing is injective in each variable, the two summands
have the same dimension, and the injective map from W' to the dual of W is an isomorphism.
No assumption on the characteristic is needed.
Over a general commutative ring the perfect pairing has to be supplied:
TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData.ofIsComplOfPairing builds the polarization from two complementary
totally isotropic submodules together with a polar identification of W' with the dual of W
whose left radical is trivial. Both ofIsCompl and the hyperbolic polarization
TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData.hyperbolic are instances of it.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData.ofIsComplOfPairing: the polarization data with no orthogonal remainder determined by two complementary isotropic submodules and a polar pairing of them.TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData.ofIsCompl: the polarization data of a finite-dimensional nondegenerate quadratic space determined by two complementary isotropic subspaces.
Main results #
TauCeti.SpinPolarizationData.ofIsComplOfPairing_W,ofIsComplOfPairing_W'andofIsComplOfPairing_line, andofIsCompl_W,ofIsCompl_W'andofIsCompl_line: the summands of the constructed data.
References #
- C. Chevalley, The Algebraic Theory of Spinors, Chapter I, for the duality between complementary totally isotropic subspaces.
The polarization by two complementary isotropic submodules with a given pairing. Over a
commutative ring, two complementary totally isotropic submodules W and W' of a quadratic space
are the two summands of a polarization with no orthogonal remainder, once an identification of
W' with the dual of W given by the polar form is supplied, and the polar pairing has trivial
left radical.
Instances For
The polarization of a quadratic space by two complementary isotropic subspaces. If a
finite-dimensional quadratic space (V, Q) with nondegenerate Q is the direct sum of two
totally isotropic subspaces W and W', then W and W' are the two isotropic summands of a
polarization of Q with no orthogonal remainder; the polar form identifies W' with the dual
of W.