Thanks Thomas, Liviu and Olga, The Atiyah's proof is done by induction on the dimension of the torus. If $\mu$ is the moment map and > $A_m$: the level sets of $\mu$ are connected, for any $\mathbb{T}^m$ hamiltonian action. >$B_m$: the image of $\mu$ is convex, for any $\mathbb{T}^m$ hamiltonian action. The **hard part** (for me) is $A_1$ which is based on the connectedness of the levels of a Morse-Bott function on a compact manifold! The rest of the proof is very well explained in: 1. Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry (as exercises), 2. Michèle Audin: Topology of torus actions on symplectic manifolds, 3. http://www.math.nyu.edu/~kessler/teaching/group/convexity.pdf The book by Liviu Nicolaescu is very useful and the complete proof can be found in: McDuff & Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Topology.