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Reduced phase space and toric variety coordinatizations of Delzant spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

JOHANNES J. DUISTERMAAT  and
ALVARO PELAYO
JOHANNES J. DUISTERMAAT
Affiliation:
Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, P.O. Box 80 010, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands. e-mail: [email protected]
ALVARO PELAYO
Affiliation:
University of California—Berkeley, Mathematics Department, 970 Evans Hall # 3840, Berkeley, CA 94720-3840, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In this note we describe the natural coordinatizations of a Delzant space defined as a reduced phase space (symplectic geometry view-point) and give explicit formulas for the coordinate transformations. For each fixed point of the torus action on the Delzant polytope, we have a maximal coordinatization of an open cell in the Delzant space which contains the fixed point. This cell is equal to the domain of definition of one of the natural coordinatizations of the Delzant space as a toric variety (complex algebraic geometry view-point), and we give an explicit formula for the toric variety coordinates in terms of the reduced phase space coordinates. We use considerations in the maximal coordinate neighborhoods to give simple proofs of some of the basic facts about the Delzant space, as a reduced phase space, and as a toric variety. These can be viewed as a first application of the coordinatizations, and serve to make the presentation more self-contained.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 146 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 695 - 718
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2009

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