Some remarks about Mishchenko-Fomenko subalgebras

We discuss and compare two different approaches to the notion of Mishchenko--Fomenko subalgebras in Poisson-Lie algebras of finite-dimensional Lie algebras. One of them, commonly accepted by the algebraic community, uses polynomial \Ad^*-invariants. The other is based on formal \Ad^*-invariants and allows one to deal with arbitrary Lie algebras, not necessarily algebraic. In this sense, the latter is more universal

Argument shift method and sectional operators: applications to differential geometry

This paper does not contain any new results, it is just an attempt to present, in a systematic way, one construction which establishes an interesting relationship between some ideas and notions well-known in the theory of integrable systems on Lie algebras and a rather different area of mathematics studying projectively equivalent Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian metrics

On one class of holonomy groups in pseudo-Riemannian geometry

We describe a new class of holonomy groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Namely, we prove the following theorem. Let g be a nondegenerate bilinear form on a vector space V, and L:V -> V a g-symmetric operator. Then the identity component of the centraliser of L in SO(g) is a holonomy group for a suitable Levi-Civita connection.Comment: (revised version

Smooth invariants of focus-focus singularities and obstructions to product decomposition

We study focus-focus singularities (also known as nodal singularities, or pinched tori) of Lagrangian fibrations on symplectic $4$-manifolds. We show that, in contrast to elliptic and hyperbolic singularities, there exist homeomorphic focus-focus singularities which are not diffeomorphic. Furthermore, we obtain an algebraic description of the moduli space of focus-focus singularities up to smooth equivalence, and show that for double pinched tori this space is one-dimensional. Finally, we apply our construction to disprove Zung's conjecture which says that any non-degenerate singularity can be smoothly decomposed into an almost direct product of standard singularities.Comment: Final version accepted to Journal of Symplectic Geometry; 25 pages, 2 figure

Jordan-Kronecker invariants of finite-dimensional Lie algebras

For any finite-dimensional Lie algebra we introduce the notion of Jordan-Kronecker invariants, study their properties and discuss examples. These invariants naturally appear in the framework of the bi-Hamiltonian approach to integrable systems on Lie algebras and are closely related to Mischenko-Fomenko's argument shift method