The Bott obstruction to the existence of nice polarizations

Izu Vaisman

doi:10.1007/BF01442487

The Bott obstruction to the existence of nice polarizations

Izu Vaisman

Department of Mathematics

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In this note, we prove and discuss the following theorem: if the symplectic or almost symplectic manifold M admits a nice polarization F with dim {Mathematical expression}, we must have Chern^qM=0 and Pont^qM=0, for q>2n-k, and, in particular, the Euler class of M vanishes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	231-238
Number of pages	8
Journal	Monatshefte fur Mathematik
Volume	92
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01442487
State	Published - Sep 1981

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