Non-abelian convexity of based loop groups
Abstract
If is a compact, connected, simply connected Lie group, its based loop group is endowed with a Hamiltonian action, where is a maximal torus of . Atiyah and Pressley examined the image of under the moment map , while Jeffrey and Mare examined the corresponding image of the real locus for a compatible anti-symplectic involution . Both papers generalize well known results in finite dimensions, specifically the Atiyah-Guillemin-Sternberg theorem, and Duistermaat's convexity theorem. In the spirit of Kirwan's convexity theorem, this paper aims to further generalize the two aforementioned results by demonstrating convexity of and its real locus in the full non-abelian regime, resulting from the Hamiltonian action. In particular, this is done by appealing to the Bruhat decomposition of the algebraic (affine) Grassmannian, and appealing to the "highest weight polytope" results for Borel-invariant varieties of Guillemin and Sjamaar and Goldberg.
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@article{arxiv.1509.05369,
title = {Non-abelian convexity of based loop groups},
author = {Tyler Holden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05369},
year = {2015}
}
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17 pages