Openness and convexity for momentum maps

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04689-8MaRDI QIDQ3605836zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Petre Birtea, Juan-Pablo Ortega, T. S. Ratiu

Publication date 25 February 2009

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511576

convexity momentum map locally polyhedral local convexity data Local-to-Global Principle locally fiber connected oppeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is finding the essential attributes underlying the convexity theorems for momentum maps. It is shown that they are of topological nature; more specifically, we show that convexity follows if the map is open onto its image and has the so called local convexity data property. These conditions are satisfied in all the classical convexity theorems and hence they can, in principle, be obtained as corollaries of a more general theorem that has only these two hypotheses. We also prove a generalization of the "Lokal-global-Prinzip" that only requires the map to be closed and to have a normal topological space as domain, instead of using a properness condition. This allows us to generalize the Flaschka-Ratiu convexity theorem to non-compact manifolds.

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