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Non-Hamiltonian actions in physics

I was reading the following article when I came across the interesting sentence "non-Hamiltonian [symplectic group] actions also occur in physics" I took a cursory look at the article cited but ...
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Infinitesimal orbit type decomposition of Hamiltonian $G$-manifolds

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group acting in a Hamiltonian fashion on a symplectic manifold $M$ with momentum map $\mu:M\to \mathfrak{g}^\ast$, where $\mathfrak{g}$ is the Lie algebra of $G$. ...
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Effective actions by non-commutative groups have non-commuting fundamental vector fields?

I have a bit of a contradiction in my brain and I was hoping once again that excellent Mathoverflow community could help me out :) Let $\rho_g$ be the action associated to a non-abelian Lie Group $G$ ...
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Liouville-Arnold and fibration relative to a convex polytope

Liouville-Arnold's theorem indicates that given a Hamiltonian torus action on a manifold and a set of $n$ functions $F$ from the manifold to $\mathbb{R}^n$ defining an integrable system, the pre image ...
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