Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2000-09-20
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
23 pages
Scientific paper
We study the symplectic geometry of the moduli spaces $M_r=M_r(\s^3)$ of closed n-gons with fixed side-lengths in the 3-sphere. We prove that these moduli spaces have symplectic structures obtained by reduction of the fusion product of $n$ conjugacy classes in SU(2), denoted $C_r^n$, by the diagonal conjugation action of SU(2). Here $C_r^n$ is a quasi-Hamiltonian SU(2)-space. An integrable Hamiltonian system is constructed on $M_r$ in which the Hamiltonian flows are given by bending polygons along a maximal collection of nonintersecting diagonals. Finally, we show the symplectic structure on $M_r$ relates to the symplectic structure obtained from gauge-theoretic description of $M_r$. The results of this paper are analogues for the 3-sphere of results obtained for $M_r(\h^3)$, the moduli space of n-gons with fixed side-lengths in hyperbolic 3-space \cite{KMT}, and for $M_r(\E^3)$, the moduli space of n-gons with fixed side-lengths in $\E^3$
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