English

Left and right centers in quasi-Poisson geometry of moduli spaces

Symplectic Geometry 2021-06-09 v4

Abstract

We introduce left central and right central functions and left and right leaves in quasi-Poisson geometry, generalizing central (or Casimir) functions and symplectic leaves from Poisson geometry. They lead to a new type of (quasi-)Poisson reduction, which is both simpler and more general than known quasi-Hamiltonian reductions. We study these notions in detail for moduli spaces of flat connections on surfaces, where the quasi-Poisson structure is given by an intersection pairing on homology.

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@article{arxiv.1402.2322,
  title  = {Left and right centers in quasi-Poisson geometry of moduli spaces},
  author = {Pavol Ševera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2322},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages; v4: Proposition 6 corrected