The Symplectic Geometry of Polygons in the 3-sphere
Treloar, Thomas
arXiv, 0009193 / Harvested from arXiv
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 $\E^3$
Publié le : 2000-09-20
Classification:  Mathematics - Differential Geometry,  Mathematical Physics,  Mathematics - Symplectic Geometry,  53D20,  53D30
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     author = {Treloar, Thomas},
     title = {The Symplectic Geometry of Polygons in the 3-sphere},
     journal = {arXiv},
     volume = {2000},
     number = {0},
     year = {2000},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/0009193}
}
Treloar, Thomas. The Symplectic Geometry of Polygons in the 3-sphere. arXiv, Tome 2000 (2000) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/0009193/