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 language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 925-977 |
| Number of pages | 53 |
| Journal | Algebraic and Geometric Topology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- 52B99
- 53D10
- 53D20
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