The Morse-Bott-Kirwan condition is local

DOI10.1186/S40687-016-0066-9MaRDI QIDQ2374082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yael Karshon, Tara S. Holm

Publication date 14 December 2016

Published in Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3526

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian group actionKirwan surjectivitymomentum mapMorse theoryMorse-Bott

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Abstract: Kirwan identified a condition on a smooth function under which the usual techniques of Morse-Bott theory can be applied to this function. We prove that if a function satisfies this condition locally then it also satisfies the condition globally. As an application, we use the local normal form theorem to recover Kirwan's result that the norm-square of a momentum map satisfies Kirwan's condition.

Review text

The main result of the paper under review establishes that Kirwan's ``minimally degenerate condition actually is a local condition. More precisely, if a function is minimally degenerate near each critical point, then it is minimally degenerate. This result enables the authors to obtain a Morse-Lemma-type local characterization of minimally degenerate functions. The main result of this paper in combination with the local normal form theorem enables the authors to deduce that for a Hamiltonian action of a compact Lie group, the norm square of a momentum map is minimally degenerate.

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