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Cohomology of symplectic reductions of generic coadjoint orbits

Symplectic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry Combinatorics

Abstract

Let mathcal{O}_lambda be a generic coadjoint orbit of a compact semi-simple Lie group K. Weight varieties are the symplectic reductions of mathcal{O}_lambda by the maximal torus T in K. We use a theorem of Tolman and Weitsman to compute the cohomology ring of these varieties. Our formula relies on a Schubert basis of the equivariant cohomology of \mathcal{O}_lambda and it makes explicit the dependence on \lambda and a parameter in Lie(T)^*.

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@article{arxiv.math/0210434,
  title  = {Cohomology of symplectic reductions of generic coadjoint orbits},
  author = {R. F. Goldin and A. -L. Mare},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210434},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages. This is a generalization of work done by the first author for SU(n), at math.SG/0201138 published Advances in Mathematics 160 (2001), no. 2, pp. 175-204