Polygon spaces and Grassmannians

zbMATH Open0888.58007arXivdg-ga/9602012MaRDI QIDQ1373339FDOQ1373339

Authors: Jean-Claude Hausmann, Allen Knutson 

Publication date: 8 January 1998

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the moduli spaces of polygons in R^2 and R^3, identifying them with subquotients of 2-Grassmannians using a symplectic version of the Gel'fand-MacPherson correspondence. We show that the bending flows defined by Kapovich-Millson arise as a reduction of the Gel'fand-Cetlin system on the Grassmannian, and with these determine the pentagon and hexagon spaces up to equivariant symplectomorphism. Other than invocation of Delzant's theorem, our proofs are purely polygon-theoretic in nature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9602012

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zbMATH Keywords

Grassmannianmoduli spaces of polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

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