Group actions on chains of Banach manifolds and applications to fluid dynamics (Q878180)

This study is motivated by many examples that appear as a result of various reduction procedures of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems with symmetry. The authors show the existence of slices, study the geometric properties of the orbit type sets, the fixed point sets, the isotropy type sets and the orbit spaces associated to a certain important class of non smooth actions of a finite dimensional Lie group \(G\) on a collection of smooth Banach manifolds. In the case all the isotropy groups are conjugated, the orbit space is a topological Banach manifold (they construct explicit charts). The rigorous functional analytic spaces are given to deal with quotiens of such actions. These considerations will be applied to the case of the motion of an ideal homogeneous incompressible fluid in a compact domain (in order to carry out in a precise sense the Poisson reduction).