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A Remark on the Moment Map proceedings of the american mathematical society Volume 121, Number 4, August 1994 A REMARK ON THE MOMENT MAP H. AZAD (Communicated by Peter Li) Abstract. Following S. Lie, it is proposed that moment maps be constructed for degenerate forms and the utility of such maps is illustrated by computing the moment maps for torus actions on C" and U{n) actions on P"(C). The moment map is usually defined on manifolds with a given nondegener- ate 2-form. However, it can also be defined for manifolds with an invariant 2-form, degenerate or not, and in some sense this useful generalization was al- ready known to Lie. According to Weinstein [8, 2], Lie considered the following closely related situation. M is a manifold on which a Lie group G operates, and n isa (7-invariant 1-form. For X in the Lie algebra 3? of G let Xm be the cor- responding fundamental vector field, i.e., XM(x) = (d/dt)\t=oe'x • x (x e M). Lie proves that the map p: M -*&* defined by pix)iX) = r\x(XM(x)) (x e M) is G-equivariant, with G operating on &* by the coadjoint representation. Consider the map X : 9 -> C°°iM) defined by X(X) = r¡iXM). We have pix)iX) = X(X)(x) (x e M, X e &). Now for Z = XM the Lie derivative Lz n of r\ along Z is zero, and therefore 0 = Lz(n) = d(n(Z)) + iz(dr,) where iz is the interior product with Z [1]. Now co = dn is also G-invariant and ixM(w) = -d(X(X)). This leads to the following definition of the como- ment map, which, according to [4] was already known to Souriau [7]. Definition (Souriau). Let M be a manifold on which a Lie group G operates and co a (/-invariant 2-form. Then a comoment for the action of G on M is a linear map X : & — C°°(M) such that d(X(X)) = -iXll((o) for all X e%. The corresponding moment map is the map p : M —►&* defined by p(x)(X) = X(X)(x), where xeM,Xe^. Now our remark is the following proposition which simplifies many of the computations in the literature relating to the moment map. Proposition. Let G be a Lie group which operates on manifolds M and M, and let n : M —►M be a G-equivariant map. Assume that G preserves a 2-form co on M and that there is a comoment for the action of G on M with p the Received by the editors November 13, 1992. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 22E70. ©1994 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/94 $1.00 + 1.25 per page 1295 License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see https://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use 1296 H. AZAD corresponding moment map. Then pan is a moment map for (M, n*(co)),and if p is any other moment map for (M, n*(co)) then p- (pon) is a constant in the sense that for all x e M and X e S? we have p(x)(X)-(pon)(x)(X) = a(X) for some linear function a on 3?. Proof. Let the comoments for p and p be X and X, respectively. For leg we compare the functions n*(X(X)) and X(X). We have -d(n*(X(X))) = n*(d(X(X)))= **(*>„(«)) and -d(X(X)) = ix~(n* (co)). As n is G-equivariant we have n*(ixM(co)) = ix~(n*(co)). Therefore the functions X(X) and n*(X(X)) have the same dif- ferentials, so their difference is a constant, say a(X). Clearly a is a linear function on % . D Applications Let us now apply this remark to recover some computations involving the moment map. The first example serves to introduce some notation needed in the subsequent examples. (a) Let M be C" with co the standard symplectic form co= ^2 dxj Adyj, Zj = Xj + iyj (j = 1, ... , n) being the coordinates in C" . We have co = ¿¿(dzjAdzj) = iö5(||z||2) = ddc\\z\\2), where dc = (d -8)/2i. Let n = dc(\\ z ||2). So r\ is invariant under U(n), and the comoment for (C", co) is the contraction of n with the fundamental vector fields of U(n). (b) Consider the action of Sx on C with weight X ; that is, exp(/0) • z = exp(z'A0)z. The fundamental vector field here is X(z) = iXz, i.e., X(z) = iX(d/dz) - iX(d/dz). We have n = dc(zz) = (zdz - zdz)/2i and n(X)(z) = Xzz. So the moment map here is p(z) = Xzz . Therefore, for an action of Sx on C" of the form *"(*,,... ,zn) = iea>ezx,... ,ea"ezn) the moment map relative to ta = úfúfc(||z||2) is pizx, ... , z„) = Xx\zx\2+ --- + X„\z„\2. (c) Finally consider P"(C). Let G = C/(« + 1). There is, up to a constant, a unique G-invariant hermitian metric on P" (C). This is the Fubini metric on P"(C) ; denote it by g. The fundamental form of g is the 2-form co defined by coiX, Y) = g(J(X), Y), J being the complex structure of P"(C). Let 7t : C"+x\ 0 —>P"(C) be the natural map. It is well known that the pullback of co is exact; namely, n*(co) = d(n), where n = i/c(log||z||2). We have already seen that a comoment for an exact form is the contraction of the fundamental vector fields with an invariant potential. Therefore, a moment map p for Cn+1 \ 0 is p(z)(X) = ¿clog(||z||2)(;r) = (l/\\z\\2)dc(\\z\\2)(X) (z e C"+x \0,Xe&). License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see https://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use A REMARKON THE MOMENT MAP 1297 The map p is G-equivariant as n is G-invariant. Moreover, as p(Xz) = p(z) the map p descends to a G-equivariant map p from P"(C) into &*. By the proposition p is a moment map for P" (relative to the Fubini metric). Ness [6] and Kirwan [5] first guess the formula for p and then verify that it is indeed a moment map. In a somewhat more general context, in Guillemin- Sternberg [3] there appears in §3 a complex line-bundle L over a compact Kahler manifold X so that if co is the fundamental form of X then n* (to) is an exact form with potential, say n ( n is a connection 1-form), and from their formulae it is clear that the momentum mapping corresponds to contracting the vector fields on L with n . We owe this remark to Professor J. J. Duistermaat. References 1. R. Abraham and J. Marsden, Foundations of mechanics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985. 2. A. M. Bloch and T. S. Ratiu, Convexity and integrability, Symplectic Geometry and Math- ematical Physics, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1991, pp. 48-79. 3. V. Guillemin and S. Sternberg, Geometric quantization and multiplicities of group represen- tations, Invent. Math. 67 (1982), 515-538. 4. P. Iglesias, Les SO(3)-variétés symplectiques et leur classification en dimension 4, Bull. Soc. Math. France 119 (1991), 371-369. 5. F. Kirwan, The cohomology of quotients in symplectic and algebraic geometry, Math Notes 31, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1985. 6. L. Ness, A stratification of the null-cone via the moment map, Amer. J. Math. 106 (1984), 1281-1329. 7. J. M. Souriau, Structure des systèmes dynamiques, Dunod, Paris, 1970. 8. A. Weinstein, Sophus Lie and symplectic geometry, Exposition. Math. 1 (1983), 95-98. Mathematisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan License or copyright restrictions may apply to redistribution; see https://www.ams.org/journal-terms-of-use.
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