Hamiltonian Reduction by Stages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783540724698)

Background and the Problem Setting.- Symplectic Reduction.- Cotangent Bundle Reduction.- The Problem Setting.- Regular Symplectic Reduction by Stages.- Commuting Reduction and Semidirect Product Theory.- Regular Reduction by Stages.- Group Extensions and the Stages Hypothesis.- Magnetic Cotangent Bundle Reduction.- Stages and Coadjoint Orbits of Central Extensions.- Examples.- Stages and Semidirect Products with Cocycles.- Reduction by Stages via Symplectic Distributions.- Reduction by Stages with Topological Conditions.- Optimal Reduction and Singular Reduction by Stages, by Juan-Pablo Ortega.- The Optimal Momentum Map and Point Reduction.- Optimal Orbit Reduction.- Optimal Reduction by Stages.

Author: Jerrold E. Marsden, Gerard Misiolek, Juan-Pablo Ortega
ISBN-10: 3540724699
ISBN-13: 9783540724698
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2007
Pages: 524
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.32w x 1.25d