A reduction scheme for phase spaces with almost Kähler symmetry. Regularity results for momentum level sets (Q1101693)

For phase spaces with a symmetry of an almost Kähler structure, extending the symplectic structure of phase space, a scheme of reduction is proposed, in which the decomposition level sets of a momentum mapping is supplemented by a preliminary reduction with respect to orbit type under the action of the symmetry group. The joint process of reduction is shown to be applicable for all values of the momentum mapping and any orbit type considered, without meeting any of the usual obstructions encountered in reduction. Furthermore the proposed method gives rise to reduced phase spaces or Hamiltonian systems, which cannot in general be obtained by the standard process, due to \textit{J. E. Marsden} and \textit{A. Weinstein} [Rep. Math. Phys. 5, 121-130 (1974; Zbl 0327.58005)]. Applicability is demonstrated for the cotangent bundle of Riemannian manifolds, which are shown to carry an almost Kähler structure extending the canonical symplectic structure. An almost Kähler structure is constructed on the cotangent bundle for which the symmetries induced by isometries of the base manifold are almost Kähler automorphisms.