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Asymptotics of action variables near semi-toric singularities

Symplectic Geometry 2015-12-09 v3

Abstract

The presence of focus-focus singularities in semi-toric integrables Hamiltonian systems is one of the reasons why there cannot exist global Action-Angle coordinates on such systems. At focus-focus critical points, the Liouville-Arnold-Mineur theorem does not apply. In particular, the affine structure of the image of the moment map around has non-trivial monodromy. In this article, we establish that the singular behaviour and the multi-valuedness of the Action integrals is given by a complex logarithm. This extends a previous result by Vu Ngoc to any dimension. We also calculate the monodromy matrix for these systems.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2414,
  title  = {Asymptotics of action variables near semi-toric singularities},
  author = {Christophe Wacheux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2414},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; modifications in the introduction, accepted for publication