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Symplectic quotients have symplectic singularities

Symplectic Geometry 2020-02-19 v3 Algebraic Geometry Representation Theory

Abstract

Let KK be a compact Lie group with complexification GG, and let VV be a unitary KK-module. We consider the real symplectic quotient M0M_0 at level 00 of the homogeneous quadratic moment map as well as the complex symplectic quotient, defined here as the complexification of M0M_0. We show that if (V,G)(V, G) is 33-large, a condition that holds generically, then the complex symplectic quotient has symplectic singularities and is graded Gorenstein. This in particular implies that the real symplectic quotient is graded Gorenstein. In the case that KK is a torus or SU2\operatorname{SU}_2, we show that these results hold without the hypothesis that (V,G)(V,G) is 33-large.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02089,
  title  = {Symplectic quotients have symplectic singularities},
  author = {Hans-Christian Herbig and Gerald W. Schwarz and Christopher Seaton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02089},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

35 pages. v2: Fixed gap in first version (the proof of Corollary 3.14 in v1 only applies if the slice is taken at a real point). Hypothesis for the main results changed from 2-large to 3-large, added Sections 3.3 and 3.5, and improved exposition. v3: Added Lemma 3.17, improved exposition. Final preprint version accepted by Compositio Mathematica (not the published version)