(Quasi-)Hamiltonian manifolds of cohomogeneity one

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Abstract: We classify compact, connected Hamiltonian and quasi-Hamiltonian manifolds of cohomogeneity one (which is the same as being multiplicity free of rank one). Here the group acting is a compact connected Lie group (simply connected in the quasi-Hamiltonian case). This work is a concretization of the more general classification (arXiv:1612.03843) of multiplicity free manifolds in the special case of rank one. As a result we obtain numerous new concrete examples of multiplicity free quasi-Hamiltonian manifolds or, equivalently, Hamiltonian loop group actions.


Let \(K\) be a connected compact Lie group. A Hamiltonian \(K\)-manifold is a triple \((M,\omega,m)\) where \(M\) is a \(K\)-manifold, \(\omega\) is a \(K\)-invariant sympletic form on \(M\), and \(m\colon M\to\mathfrak{k}^*\) is a \(K\)-invariant map (with respect to the coadjoint action), called the momentum map, such that \(\omega(\xi x,\eta)=m_*(\eta)(\xi)\), for \(\xi\in\mathfrak{k}\), \(x\in M\), and \(\eta\in T_x M\). Here \(\mathfrak{k}\) is the Lie algebra of \(K\). A similar notion is that of a quasi-Hamiltonian \(K\)-manifold, whose definition is similar, although a bit more technical. It can be found in [\textit{A. Alekseev} et al., J. Differ. Geom. 48, No. 3, 445--495 (1998; Zbl 0948.53045)]. For the results of this paper, in this case the group \(K\) is also assumed to be simply connected. The main result of this paper is to classify cohomogeneity one (quasi-)Hamiltonian \(K\)-manifolds. The fact that the action of \(K\) on \(M\) is of cohomogeneity one means that the orbit space \(M/K\) is \(1\)-dimensional. However, this is equivalent to a more technical notion that in turn relates to affine Dynkin diagrams. The classification is then recovered from a table listing all these possible diagrams.











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