Symplectic connections
@inproceedings{Bieliavsky2005SymplecticC, title={Symplectic connections}, author={Pierre Bieliavsky and Michel Cahen and Simone Gutt and John Howard Rawnsley and Lorenz J. Schwachhofer}, year={2005} }
This article is an overview of the results obtained in recent years on symplectic connections. We present what is known about preferred connections (critical points of a variational principle). The class of Ricci-type connections (for which the curvature is entirely determined by the Ricci tensor) is described in detail, as well as its far reaching generalization to special connections. A twistorial construction shows a relation between Ricci-type connections and complex geometry. We give a…
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