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Polite actions of non-compact Lie groups

Differential Geometry 2013-07-23 v2

Abstract

Based mainly on examples of interest in mechanics, we define the notion of a polite group action. One may view this as not only trying to give a more general notion than properness of a group action, but also to more fully understand the role of invariant functions in describing just about everything of interest in reduction. We show that a polite action of a symmetry group of a dynamical system admits reduction and reconstruction.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2465,
  title  = {Polite actions of non-compact Lie groups},
  author = {Larry Bates and Jedrzej Sniatycki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2465},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages

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