TY - JOUR
T1 - Convexity package for momentum maps on contact manifolds
AU - Chiang, River
AU - Karshon, Yael
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Let a torus T act effectively on a compact connected cooriented contact manifold, and let Ψ be the natural momentum map on the symplectization. We prove that, if dim T > 2, the union of the origin with the image of Ψ is a convex polyhedral cone, the nonzero level sets of Ψ are connected (while the zero level set can be disconnected), and the momentum map is open as a map to its image. This answers a question posed by Eugene Lerman, who proved similar results when the zero level set is empty. We also analyze examples with dim T ≤ 2.
AB - Let a torus T act effectively on a compact connected cooriented contact manifold, and let Ψ be the natural momentum map on the symplectization. We prove that, if dim T > 2, the union of the origin with the image of Ψ is a convex polyhedral cone, the nonzero level sets of Ψ are connected (while the zero level set can be disconnected), and the momentum map is open as a map to its image. This answers a question posed by Eugene Lerman, who proved similar results when the zero level set is empty. We also analyze examples with dim T ≤ 2.
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U2 - 10.2140/agt.2010.10.925
DO - 10.2140/agt.2010.10.925
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954870907
SN - 1472-2747
VL - 10
SP - 925
EP - 977
JO - Algebraic and Geometric Topology
JF - Algebraic and Geometric Topology
IS - 2
ER -