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    Equivariant KK-theory of GKM bundles

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    Given a fiber bundle of GKM spaces, π ⁣:MB\pi\colon M\to B, we analyze the structure of the equivariant KK-ring of MM as a module over the equivariant KK-ring of BB by translating the fiber bundle, π\pi, into a fiber bundle of GKM graphs and constructing, by combinatorial techniques, a basis of this module consisting of KK-classes which are invariant under the natural holonomy action on the KK-ring of MM of the fundamental group of the GKM graph of BB. We also discuss the implications of this result for fiber bundles π ⁣:MB\pi\colon M\to B where MM and BB are generalized partial flag varieties and show how our GKM description of the equivariant KK-ring of a homogeneous GKM space is related to the Kostant-Kumar description of this ring.Comment: 15 page

    Coherent states and the quantization of 1+1-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

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    This paper discusses the canonical quantization of 1+1-dimensional Yang-Mills theory on a spacetime cylinder, from the point of view of coherent states, or equivalently, the Segal-Bargmann transform. Before gauge symmetry is imposed, the coherent states are simply ordinary coherent states labeled by points in an infinite-dimensional linear phase space. Gauge symmetry is imposed by projecting the original coherent states onto the gauge-invariant subspace, using a suitable regularization procedure. We obtain in this way a new family of "reduced" coherent states labeled by points in the reduced phase space, which in this case is simply the cotangent bundle of the structure group K. The main result explained here, obtained originally in a joint work of the author with B. Driver, is this: The reduced coherent states are precisely those associated to the generalized Segal-Bargmann transform for K, as introduced by the author from a different point of view. This result agrees with that of K. Wren, who uses a different method of implementing the gauge symmetry. The coherent states also provide a rigorous way of making sense out of the quantum Hamiltonian for the unreduced system. Various related issues are discussed, including the complex structure on the reduced phase space and the question of whether quantization commutes with reduction

    Non-commutative integrable systems on bb-symplectic manifolds

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    In this paper we study non-commutative integrable systems on bb-Poisson manifolds. One important source of examples (and motivation) of such systems comes from considering non-commutative systems on manifolds with boundary having the right asymptotics on the boundary. In this paper we describe this and other examples and we prove an action-angle theorem for non-commutative integrable systems on a bb-symplectic manifold in a neighbourhood of a Liouville torus inside the critical set of the Poisson structure associated to the bb-symplectic structure

    Toric moment mappings and Riemannian structures

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    Coadjoint orbits for the group SO(6) parametrize Riemannian G-reductions in six dimensions, and we use this correspondence to interpret symplectic fibrations between these orbits, and to analyse moment polytopes associated to the standard Hamiltonian torus action on the coadjoint orbits. The theory is then applied to describe so-called intrinsic torsion varieties of Riemannian structures on the Iwasawa manifold.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figures; Geometriae Dedicata 2012, Toric moment mappings and Riemannian structures, available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/yn86k22mv18p8ku2
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