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Some remarks on the Maslov index

Wolfgang Pitsch
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It is a classical fact that Wall's index of a triplet of Lagrangians in a symplectic space over a field $k$ defines a $2$-cocycle $\mu_W$ on the associated symplectic group with values in the Witt group of $k$. Moreover, modulo the square of the fundamental ideal this is a trivial $2$-cocycle. In this work we revisit this fact from the viewpoint of the theory of Sturm sequences and Sylvester matrices developed by J.~Barge and J.~Lannes in teir book Suites de Sturm, indice de Maslov et p\'eriodicit\'e de Bott, volume 267 of Progress in Mathematics. Birkh\"auser Verlag, Basel, 2008. We define a refinement by a factor of $2$ of Wall's cocycle and use the technology of Sylvester matrices to give an explicit formula for the coboundary associated to the mod $I^2$ reduction of the cocycle which is valid for any field of characteristic different from $2$. Finally we explicitly compute the values of the coboundary on standard elements of the symplectic group.

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Wolfgang Pitsch. 2021-05-10. Some remarks on the Maslov index. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04337

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