Symplectic reduction at zero angular momentum

DOI10.3934/JGM.2016.8.13MaRDI QIDQ254838zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Cape, Hans-Christian Herbig, Christopher Seaton

Publication date 16 March 2016

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04933

\(O_n\)-representation angular momentum moment map rational singularities symplectic reduction

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: We study the symplectic reduction of the phase space describing

k

particles in

m a t h b b R^{n}

with total angular momentum zero. This corresponds to the singular symplectic quotient associated to the diagonal action of

o p e r a t o r n a m e O_{n}

on

k

copies of

m a t h b b C^{n}

at the zero value of the homogeneous quadratic moment map. We give a description of the ideal of relations of the ring of regular functions of the symplectic quotient. Using this description, we demonstrate

m a t h b b Z^{+}

-graded regular symplectomorphisms among the

o p e r a t o r n a m e O_{n}

- and

o p e r a t o r n a m e {S O}_{n}

-symplectic quotients and determine which of these quotients are graded regularly symplectomorphic to linear symplectic orbifolds. We demonstrate that when

n l e q k

, the zero fibre of the moment map has rational singularities and hence is normal and Cohen-Macaulay. We also demonstrate that for small values of

k

, the ring of regular functions on the symplectic quotient is graded Gorenstein.

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