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Hamiltonian systems, symplectic flows, classical integrable systems

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Examples of non-Kahler compact symplectic manifolds.

I would recommend the Tralle-Oprea book, Symplectic manifolds with no Kähler structure.
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
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Marsden–Weinstein: example of not proper action

(Comment $\to$ answer as requested.) Let $G=\mathbf R$ act on the 2-torus $Z=\mathrm U(1)\times\mathrm U(1)$ by $g(z_1,z_2)=(e^{ig}z_1, e^{i\pi g}z_2)$. Lift the action to $T^*Z$ and use any $G$-invar …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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How are Poisson brackets and the variational principle related?

The direct connection between Poisson bracket and non-commutativity is pretty clear, at least if you agree that the (later introduced) Lie bracket $[X,Y]$ of vector fields measures the non-commutativi …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Reading list for Equivariant Cohomology

For the desired symplectic emphasis, I’d warmly recommend these (of which Panagiotis’ ref. cites #2–5): Atiyah, Michael F.; Bott, Raoul, The moment map and equivariant cohomology, Topology 23, 1-28 …
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Is there a high level reason why the inverse square law of gravitation yields periodic orbit...

There are: Bertrand’s theorem, which says that the isotropic oscillator and Kepler potentials are the only analytic radial ones all of whose nonrectilinear bounded orbits are closed. (Recommendation …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Flag manifolds as homogeneous Kahler manifolds

Flag manifolds $G/C(S)$ even exhaust homogeneous symplectic manifolds of $G$: Borel-Weil (1954, Thm 1). Also restated with fewer details in (1954, Thm 1).
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Practical example of Hamiltonian reduction

The reduction you require is a (very) special case of Marsden-Weinstein (1974). Your one constant of the motion, say $\psi$, is the moment map of an action of the additive group $G=\mathbf R$ on the s …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Compact simply-connected homogeneous symplectic manifold

Let your manifold be $X=G/H$. First of all, since it is simply connected, we can write it as $K/U$ where $K$ and $U=K\cap H$ are compact in $G$ (Montgomery’s theorem, 1950). Next, since $K/U$ is homog …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Linearization of hamiltonian torus action

There is always an equivariant local symplectomorphism with $T_pM$ with its 2-form and linear isotropy action, by the Moser-Weinstein proof. But that constant 2-form then has more possible “equivarian …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Can I bring the Kirillov 2-form on coadjoint orbits to adjoint orbits?

For $G$ semisimple as you assume, the Killing form gives a $G$-equivariant map $\mathfrak g\to\mathfrak g^*$, which identifies adjoint to coadjoint orbits. That is all you need.
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Special Cases of Duistermaat-Heckman Formula

Nice examples are worked out in Audin (2004, §VI.3.d), Arvanitoyeorgos (1999)(pdf), McDuff-Salamon (1998, §5.6). It’s not true that $\omega$ is rarely explicit: e.g. on all coadjoint orbits (including …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Geometrically quantizing real Grassmannians

For question 1 (references): this is covered in Besse, Einstein Manifolds, pp. 230-233 for even and then odd $n$. For question 2 (nice formula), I think you want to do something like what works for a …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Is a symplectic submanifold of a Kähler manifold Kähler?

No. In $\mathbf C^2$ with standard 2-form and complex structure, the real span of $U=\left(\begin{smallmatrix}1\\0\end{smallmatrix}\right)$ and $V=\left(\begin{smallmatrix}i\\1\end{smallmatrix}\right) …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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How is the Euler-Lagrange equation derived without local coordinates?

I don’t think your characterization of the vector field is quite correct; I would recommend Cartan (1922, §§184-185), Godbillon (1969, Proposition XI.3.7), or Souriau (1970, Theorem 7.29). Or this ans …
Francois Ziegler's user avatar
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Symplectic submanifolds of cotangent bundles of Lie groups

The preimage of a coadjoint orbit under a moment map is, under a mild transversality assumption, a coisotropic submanifold; so its null foliation $\smash{\ker(\omega_{|\Phi^{-1}(\mathcal O)})}$ is not …
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