Introduction to group actions in symplectic and complex geometry

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Authors Alan Huckleberry

Publication date 4 July 2002

zbMATH Keywords

complex spaces with a group of automorphismsKählerian structuresmoment mapPoisson structuresemisimple Lie groups and their representationssymplectic manifolds with symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Review text

This work is an exposition of the part of the geometry that deals with some special structures: the symplectic one and the complex one. It is specially intended as a background for this topic. As a reference text it offers a reasonably complete coverage of the area mainly in the finite dimensional case. It begins with a preparatory chapter about differentiable manifolds where the special structures are presented. The next chapters treat the following topics: -- Lie groups and their actions (fiber bundles are here included); -- manifolds with additional structures, including a brief exposition about Hamiltonian equations and Kähler manifolds; -- symplectic manifolds with symmetry, here appears a study of the moment map and the modern point of view of a Poisson structure; -- Kählerian structures on coadjoint orbits of compact groups and associated representations. Along the text one can find a number of exercises intending to aid in understanding the above mentioned topics. This work is an attempt to introduce non-specialists to the fundamental themes of the subject. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0967.00012].

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