Available in electronic format
Available in print format
Transacrions of the American Mathematical Society
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6850(e) ISSN 0002-9947(p)
     

Lagrangian submanifolds and moment convexity

Author(s): Bernhard Krötz; Michael Otto
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 799-818.
MSC (2000): Primary 53D20, 22E15
Posted: May 10, 2005
Retrieve article in: PDF DVI PostScript

Abstract | References | Similar articles | Additional information

Abstract: We consider a Hamiltonian torus action $T\times M \rightarrow M$ on a compact connected symplectic manifold $M$ and its associated momentum map $\Phi $. For certain Lagrangian submanifolds $Q\subseteq M$ we show that $\Phi (Q)$ is convex. The submanifolds $Q$ arise as the fixed point set of an involutive diffeomorphism $\tau :M\rightarrow M$ which satisfies several compatibility conditions with the torus action, but which is in general not anti-symplectic. As an application we complete a symplectic proof of Kostant's non-linear convexity theorem.


References:

[1]
A. Alekseev, E. Meinrenken, C. Woodward, Linearization of Poisson actions and singular values of matrix products, Ann. Inst. Fourier 51, 6 (2001), 1691-1717. MR 1871286 (2002j:53108)

[2]
M.F. Atiyah, Convexity and commuting Hamiltonians, Bull. London Math. Soc. 14 (1) (1982), 1-15. MR 0642416 (83e:53037)

[3]
C. De Concini and C. Procesi, Quantum groups, Springer LNM 1565 (1992), 31-140. MR 1288995 (95j:17012)

[4]
J.J. Duistermaat, Convexity and tightness for restrictions of Hamiltonian functions to fixed point sets of an antisymplectic involution, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 275 (1) (1983), 417-429. MR 0678361 (84c:53035)

[5]
V. Guillemin and S. Sternberg, Convexity properties of the moment mapping, Invent. Math. 67 (3) (1982), 491-513. MR 0664117 (83m:58037)

[6]
V. Guillemin and S. Sternberg, Symplectic techniques in physics, Cambridge University Press, 1990. MR 1066693 (91d:58073)

[7]
P. Heinzner and A. Huckleberry, Kählerian potentials and convexity properties of the momentum map., Invent. Math. 126 (1) (1996), 65-84. MR 1408556 (98e:58075)

[8]
J. Hilgert and K.-H. Neeb, Poisson Lie groups and non-linear convexity theorems, Math. Nachr. 191 (1998), 153-187. MR 1621294 (99k:58070)

[9]
J. Hilgert, K.-H. Neeb and W. Plank, Symplectic Convexity Theorems and Coadjoint Orbits, Compositio Math. 94 (1994), 129-180. MR 1302314 (96d:53053)

[10]
F. Knop, Convexity of Hamiltonian manifolds, J. Lie Theory 12 (2) (2002), 571-582. MR 1923787 (2003j:53131)

[11]
B. Kostant, On convexity, the Weyl group and the Iwasawa decomposition, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. 6 (1973), 413-455. MR 0364552 (51:806)

[12]
K. Leichtweiß, Konvexe Mengen, Springer, 1979. MR 0586235 (81j:52001)

[13]
J.-H. Lu and T. Ratiu, On the nonlinear convexity theorem of Kostant, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (2) (1991), 349-363. MR 1086967 (92a:58048)

[14]
R. Sjamaar, Convexity Properties of the Moment Mapping Re-examined, Advances in Math. 138 (1998), 46-91. MR 1645052 (2000a:53148)


Similar Articles:

Retrieve articles in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (2000): 53D20, 22E15

Retrieve articles in all Journals with MSC (2000): 53D20, 22E15


Additional Information:

Bernhard Krötz
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1221
Email: kroetz@math.uoregon.edu

Michael Otto
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio
Email: otto@math.ohio-state.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03723-2
PII: S 0002-9947(05)03723-2
Received by editor(s): November 11, 2003
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 31, 2004
Posted: May 10, 2005
Additional Notes: The work of the first author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0097314
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


  AMS Website Logo Small Comments: webmaster@ams.org
© Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
Privacy Statement
Search the AMSPowered by Google