Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotients (Progress in Mathematics (Boston, Mass.), 198.)
Contributors: N. P. Landsman (Editor); M. Pflaum (Editor); Martin Schlichenmaier (Editor)
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: September 2001
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780817666088
Subjects: Geometry - Differential; Symplectic manifolds; Geometric quantization; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: Most readers of this volume presumably know how symplectic reduction goes: given a hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold, one divides a level set of a momentum map by the action of a suitable subgroup to form a new symplectic manifold.