On the Poisson geometry of the Adler-Gel'fand-Dikii brackets (Q1387672)

The author considers a symplectic leaf which goes through a singular point of the Adler-Gel'fand-Dikii Poisson bracket associated to \(SL(n, \mathbb{R})\). She finds a finite dimensional transverse section \(Q\) at the singular point and proves that one can induce a Poisson structure on \(Q\) (the transverse structure) which is linearizable and equivalent to the Lie-Poisson structure on \(sl(n, \mathbb{R})^*\). This problem is closely related to finding normal forms for \(n\)th order scalar differential operators with periodic coefficients. She partially generalizes a well-known result for Hill's operators to the higher order case.