Modified systems found by symmetry reduction on the cotangent bundle of a loop group (Q1894595)

The author considers the cotangent bundle of a loop group, not with the canonical symplectic structure, but with a deformation of it by addition of a term depending on the coadjoint one-cocycle on the loop group. Three symplectic actions on the cotangent bundle, and their moment mappings, are then considered, the left- and right-actions of the loop group and that of the diffeomorphism group of the circle. The forms of the moment maps for these actions are such that the existence and the form of a Poisson map for the central extension of a related Lie algebra to the dual of the Virasoro algebra are transparent. The two main objectives of the paper under review are first, the presentation of the results of a previous paper of the same author [Physica D 70, No. 1-2, 40-60 (1994; Zbl 0807.58037)]\ from a geometric point of view. In order to present a self contained paper, the author includes a summary of the results of this reference. Second, to exploit the consequences of this geometric description in the sense of looking for new kinds of system by similar means. An example, the Clebsch case of a rigid body in an ideal fluid, is fully developed.