Convexity package for momentum maps on contact manifolds

River Chiang*, Yael Karshon

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)925-977
Number of pages53
JournalAlgebraic and Geometric Topology
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 52B99
  • 53D10
  • 53D20

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