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Symplectic quotients and representability: the circle action case

Symplectic Geometry 2017-03-28 v2 Differential Geometry Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let S1S^1 act on a symplectic manifold in a Hamiltonian fashion with momentum map Ψ\Psi. Fix a value aa of Ψ\Psi. There is a question of whether the symplectic quotient at aa is diffeomorphic to the orbit space of some proper Lie group action. We prove under mild assumptions that this only occurs if the symplectic quotient is diffeomorphic to an effective orbifold. This, in turn, only occurs if aa is a regular value, or there is at most one positive weight or at most one negative weight.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01547,
  title  = {Symplectic quotients and representability: the circle action case},
  author = {Jordan Watts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01547},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages V2: added an assumption "weakly unrepresentability" to account for a gap in V1

R2 v1 2026-06-22T16:12:04.588Z