A dual pair for the contact group (Q2672697): Difference between revisions

The concept of ``dual pair'' in Poisson geometry was introduced in [\textit{A. Weinstein}, J. Differ. Geom. 18, 523--557 (1983; Zbl 0524.58011)], in this paper the authors show that this concept appears naturally in the setting of symplectization of contact manifolds. More precisely, the authors introduce a Fréchet manifold which is a natural infinite-dimensional generalization of the symplectization. This space carries a symplectic structure such that the contact group and the group of reparameterizations act in a Hamiltonian fashion with equivariant moment maps giving rise to a dual pair called the EPContact dual pair. As an application, the authors use the EPContact dual pair to identify coadjoint orbits of the contact group via symplectic reduction for the reparameterization action. Another motivation for studying the EPContact dual pair is the construction of singular solutions of the geodesic equation on the group of contact diffeomorphisms equipped with a right invariant Riemannian metric.