The Morse-Bott-Kirwan condition is local

DOI10.1186/S40687-016-0066-9zbMATH Open1354.58010arXiv1407.3526OpenAlexW3101595610WikidataQ59465709 ScholiaQ59465709MaRDI QIDQ2374082FDOQ2374082

Authors: Yael Karshon, Tara S. Holm 

Publication date: 14 December 2016

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Morse theorymomentum mapKirwan surjectivityMorse-BottHamiltonian group action

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)

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