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Angular Momenta of Relative Equilibrium Motions and Real Moment Map Geometry

Dynamical Systems 2016-09-21 v1 Representation Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Chenciner and Jimenez Perez showed that the range of the spectra of the angular momenta of all the rigid motions of a fixed central configuration in a general Euclidean space form a convex polytope. In this note we explain how this result follows from a general real convexity theorem of O Shea and Sjamaar in symplectic geometry. Finally, we provide a representation theoretic description of the pushforward of the normalized measure under the real moment map for Riemannian symmetric pairs.

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@article{arxiv.1505.07331,
  title  = {Angular Momenta of Relative Equilibrium Motions and Real Moment Map Geometry},
  author = {Gert Heckman and Lei Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07331},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages