Juan Fervenza

A description of the canonical symplectic form of the cotangent bundle of a generalized flag manifold

We investigate the symplectic geometry of homogeneous spaces associated with semisimple Lie groups, with particular emphasis on cotangent bundles of generalized flag manifolds. Our approach gives an explicit description of the Liouville symplectic form on these spaces in terms of the connections and curvature forms of principal bundles naturally arising from the Lie group structure. This provides a geometric link between the Lie-theoretic properties of generalized flag manifolds and the symplectic structures carried by their cotangent bundles.