Symplectic quotients have symplectic singularities
Abstract
Let be a compact Lie group with complexification , and let be a unitary -module. We consider the real symplectic quotient at level of the homogeneous quadratic moment map as well as the complex symplectic quotient, defined here as the complexification of . We show that if is -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 is a torus or , we show that these results hold without the hypothesis that is -large.
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Cite
@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)