: ''For other inequalities named after Wirtinger, see
Wirtinger's inequality.''
In mathematics, the Wirtinger inequality for 2-forms, named after
Wilhelm Wirtinger, states that on a
Kähler manifold , the
exterior th power of the
symplectic form (Kähler form) , when evaluated on a simple (decomposable) -vector of unit volume, is bounded above by . That is,
:
for any orthonormal vectors . In other words, is a
calibration on . An important corollary of the further characterization of equality is that every complex submanifold of a Kähler manifold is volume minimizing in its homology class.
See also
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2-form
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Gromov's inequality for complex projective space
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Systolic geometry
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References
*{{cite book, last = Federer, first = Herbert, author-link1=Herbert Federer, title = Geometric measure theory, place= Berlin–Heidelberg–New York, publisher =
Springer-Verlag, series = Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, volume = 153, year = 1969, isbn = 978-3-540-60656-7, mr=0257325, zbl= 0176.00801 , doi=10.1007/978-3-642-62010-2
Inequalities
Differential geometry
Systolic geometry