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Lifting Hamiltonian loops to isotopies in fibrations

Symplectic Geometry 2013-04-30 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a Lie group, HH a closed subgroup and MM the homogeneous space G/HG/H. Each representation Ψ\Psi of HH determines a GG-equivariant principal bundle P{\mathcal P} on MM endowed with a GG-invariant connection. We consider subgroups G{\mathcal G} of the diffeomorphism group Diff(M){\rm Diff}(M), such that, each vector field ZLie(G)Z\in{\rm Lie}({\mathcal G}) admits a lift to a preserving connection vector field on P{\mathcal P}. We prove that #\,\pi_1({\mathcal G})\geq #\,\Psi(Z(G)). This relation is applicable to subgroups G{\mathcal G} of the Hamiltonian groups of the flag varieties of a semisimple group GG. Let MΔM_{\Delta} be the toric manifold determined by the Delzant polytope Δ\Delta. We put φb\varphi_{\bf b} for the the loop in the Hamiltonian group of MΔM_{\Delta} defined by the lattice vector b{\bf b}. We give a sufficient condition, in terms of the mass center of Δ\Delta, for the loops φb\varphi_{\bf b} and φb~\varphi_{\bf\tilde b} to be homotopically inequivalent.

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@article{arxiv.1302.5573,
  title  = {Lifting Hamiltonian loops to isotopies in fibrations},
  author = {Andrés Viña},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5573},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

23 pages, 1 figure. To be published in Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Physics