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The cotangent lift of an action is Hamiltonian with the tautological moment map

Statement

Assume ${A C}_{ω}$ . Let a smooth left action of $G$ on a smooth manifold $Q$ be given and let $μ_{0} : G \times Q \to Q$ denote it. Define the cotangent-lifted action on $T^{*} Q$ by

$\hat{g} (q, p) : = (g \cdot q, (d (a_{g})_{q}^{- 1})^{*} p),$

where $a_{g} (q) = g \cdot q$ . Then the lifted action is a smooth left action preserving the canonical symplectic form $ω_{c a n} = - d λ$ , and the tautological moment map

$⟨ μ (q, p), ξ ⟩ : = - p (ξ_{Q} (q)), ξ \in g,$

satisfies the component moment equations $d μ^{ξ} = - ι_{ξ_{T^{*} Q}} ω_{c a n}$ for the lifted fundamental fields. Its coadjoint equivariance, which makes $μ$ an equivariant moment map, is verified in the companion lemma.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: ${A C}_{ω}$ , a smooth left action of $G$ on $Q$ and the induced cotangent-lifted action on $T^{*} Q$ .

[A1]

${A C}_{ω}$ is countable choice; it is used only through the fundamental-field and cotangent-bundle interfaces cited below.

[F1]

$λ_{(q, p)} (v) = p (d π v)$ and $ω_{c a n} = - d λ$ is the canonical symplectic form on $T^{*} Q$ . Tautological one-form on a cotangent bundle.

[F2]

For a diffeomorphism $f : Q \to Q^{'}$ the cotangent lift $\hat{f} (q, p) = (f (q), (d f_{q}^{- 1})^{*} p)$ satisfies ${\hat{f}}^{*} λ_{Q^{'}} = λ_{Q}$ and ${\hat{f}}^{*} ω_{Q^{'}} = ω_{Q}$ . Cotangent lifts are symplectomorphisms.

[F3]

If $Y$ is a vector field on $Q$ and $Y^{#}$ is the infinitesimal generator of the inverse-transpose cotangent lifts of the local flow of $Y$ , then in cotangent coordinates $Y^{#} = Y^{i} \partial_{q^{i}} - p_{j} (\partial_{q^{i}} Y^{j}) \partial_{p_{i}}$ and $Y^{#}$ is Hamiltonian for $p (Y_{q})$ . The cotangent lift of a vector field is Hamiltonian.

[F4]

The fundamental field of the lifted action is $ξ_{T^{*} Q} (q, p) = {\frac{d}{d t} ∣}_{0} \hat{a_{\exp_{G} (- t ξ)}} (q, p)$ , and it projects to $ξ_{Q} (q)$ because $π \circ \hat{a_{h}} = a_{h} \circ π$ . Fundamental vector fields for a left action, Smooth left actions of Lie groups.

[F5]

$\exp_{G} ({Ad}_{g} ζ) = g \exp_{G} (ζ) g^{- 1}$ , hence $({Ad}_{g} ζ)_{Q} (g \cdot q) = d (a_{g})_{q} ζ_{Q} (q)$ for the fundamental fields of the action on $Q$ . Adjoint intertwines the exponential map, Fundamental vector fields for a left action.

Proof

technique · direct

1.1F2given

The lifted action is a smooth left action: ${\hat{a}}_{g}$ is the cotangent lift of the diffeomorphism $a_{g}$ , the formula is smooth in $(g, q, p)$ , and ${\hat{a}}_{g} \circ {\hat{a}}_{h} = {\hat{a}}_{g h}$ by the chain rule. Each ${\hat{a}}_{g}$ preserves $λ$ and $ω_{c a n}$ by [F2], so the action is symplectic.

1.2F3F4given

The fundamental field of the lifted action is the infinitesimal generator of the inverse-transpose lifts of the flow of $ξ_{Q}$ : it projects to $ξ_{Q}$ by [F4], and differentiating the lift formula in cotangent coordinates gives $(ξ_{Q})^{#} = ξ_{Q}^{i} \partial_{q^{i}} - p_{j} (\partial_{q^{i}} ξ_{Q}^{j}) \partial_{p_{i}} = ξ_{T^{*} Q}$ .

2.1step 1.2F1F3

By [F3] the field $(ξ_{Q})^{#} = ξ_{T^{*} Q}$ is Hamiltonian with Hamiltonian function $p (ξ_{Q} (q))$ , that is $ι_{ξ_{T^{*} Q}} ω_{c a n} = d p (ξ_{Q} (q))$ . Therefore the function $μ^{ξ} (q, p) : = - p (ξ_{Q} (q))$ satisfies $d μ^{ξ} = - ι_{ξ_{T^{*} Q}} ω_{c a n}$ , the component moment equation of the library convention.

3.1step 2.1F5A1∎

Equivariance holds as well: for $g \in G$ and $ξ \in g$ , $⟨ μ (\hat{g} (q, p)), ξ ⟩ = - ((d (a_{g})_{q}^{- 1})^{*} p) (ξ_{Q} (g \cdot q)) = - p ((d (a_{g})_{q}^{- 1}) ξ_{Q} (g \cdot q)) = - p (({Ad}_{g^{- 1}} ξ)_{Q} (q)) = ⟨ μ (q, p), {Ad}_{g^{- 1}} ξ ⟩ = ⟨ g \cdot μ (q, p), ξ ⟩,$ using [F5] with $g$ replaced by $g^{- 1}$ . Hence $μ$ is coadjoint equivariant and, with step 2.1, is an equivariant moment map for the lifted action.

Depends on

Used by

Angular momentum as the moment map for rotations of a cotangent bundle Example
Cotangent reduction for a principal bundle at zero Example
Moment maps are unique without normalization False statement
The cotangent-lift moment map has a plus sign under the library fundamental-field convention False statement
The general reduced dimension is dim M minus two dim G False statement
The tautological cotangent moment map is equivariant Lemma

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Sources

Eckhard Meinrenken, Symplectic Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)
Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)