Contact reduction and groupoid actions

Details Contact reduction and groupoid actions Contact reduction and groupoid actions

2004-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/math/0405047v2

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 1365-1401.

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Differential Geometry

Remark 4.6 added. Accepted for publication by Transactions Amer. Math. Soc. 35 pages

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We introduce a new method to perform reduction of contact manifolds that extends Willett's (math.SG/0104080) and Albert's results. To carry out our reduction procedure all we need is a complete Jacobi map $J$ from a contact manifold $M$ to a Jacobi manifold $\Gamma_0$. This naturally generates the action of the contact groupoid of $\Gamma_0$ on $M$, and we show that the quotients of fibers of $J$ by suitable Lie subgroups are either contact or locally conformal symplectic manifolds with structures induced by the one on $M$. We show that Willett's reduced spaces are prequantizations of our reduced spaces; hence the former are completely determined by the latter. Since a symplectic manifold is prequantizable iff the symplectic form is integral, this explains why Willett's reduction can be performed only at distinguished points. As an application we obtain Kostant's prequantizations of coadjoint orbits.

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