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Symplectic reduction at zero angular momentum

Symplectic Geometry 2016-03-18 v1 Mathematical Physics Commutative Algebra Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We study the symplectic reduction of the phase space describing kk particles in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with total angular momentum zero. This corresponds to the singular symplectic quotient associated to the diagonal action of On\operatorname{O}_n on kk copies of Cn\mathbb{C}^n at the zero value of the homogeneous quadratic moment map. We give a description of the ideal of relations of the ring of regular functions of the symplectic quotient. Using this description, we demonstrate Z+\mathbb{Z}^+-graded regular symplectomorphisms among the On\operatorname{O}_n- and SOn\operatorname{SO}_n-symplectic quotients and determine which of these quotients are graded regularly symplectomorphic to linear symplectic orbifolds. We demonstrate that when nkn \leq k, the zero fibre of the moment map has rational singularities and hence is normal and Cohen-Macaulay. We also demonstrate that for small values of kk, the ring of regular functions on the symplectic quotient is graded Gorenstein.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04933,
  title  = {Symplectic reduction at zero angular momentum},
  author = {Joshua Cape and Hans-Christian Herbig and Christopher Seaton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04933},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages

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