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The paper develops a Picard-Lefschetz theory for the coadjoint quotient of a semisimple Lie algebra and analyzes the resulting monodromy representation of the Weyl group.
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Rossmann, W. Picard-Lefschetz theory for the coadjoint quotient of a semisimple Lie algebra. Invent Math 121, 531–578 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01884311
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