Witten's nonabelian localization for noncompact Hamiltonian spaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2006.11.003MaRDI QIDQ997145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephen Sawin

Publication date 23 July 2007

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503385

zbMATH Keywords

localizationmomentreductionequivariantsymplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Abstract: For a finite-dimensional (but possibly noncompact) symplectic manifold with a compact group acting with a proper moment map, we show that the square of the moment map is an equivariantly perfect Morse function in the sense of Kirwan, and that the set of critical points of the square of the moment map is a countable discrete union of compact sets. We show that certain integrals of equivariant cohomology classes localizes as a sum of contributions from these compact critical sets, and we bound the contribution from each critical set. In the case (1) that the contribution from higher critical sets grows slowly enough that the overall integral converges rapidly and (2) that 0 is a regular value of the moment map, we recover Witten's result cite{Witten92} identifying the polynomial part of these integrals as the ordinary integral of the image of the class under the Kirwan map to the symplectic quotient.

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