Scheme-theoretic coisotropic reduction
Abstract
We develop an affine scheme-theoretic version of Hamiltonian reduction by symplectic groupoids. It works over or , and is formulated for an affine symplectic groupoid , an affine Hamiltonian -scheme , a coisotropic subvariety , and a stabilizer subgroupoid . Our first main result is that the Poisson bracket on induces a Poisson bracket on the subquotient . The Poisson scheme is then declared to be a Hamiltonian reduction of . Other main results include sufficient conditions for to inherit a residual Hamiltonian scheme structure. Our main results are best viewed as affine scheme-theoretic counterparts to an earlier paper, where we simultaneously generalize several Hamiltonian reduction processes. In this way, the present work yields scheme-theoretic analogues of Marsden-Ratiu reduction, Mikami-Weinstein reduction, \'{S}niatycki-Weinstein reduction, and symplectic reduction along general coisotropic submanifolds. The initial impetus for this work was its utility in formulating and proving generalizations of the Moore-Tachikawa conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2408.11932,
title = {Scheme-theoretic coisotropic reduction},
author = {Peter Crooks and Maxence Mayrand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11932},
year = {2026}
}