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    All local classical symmetries in Hamiltonian mechanics

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    Using the formalism of symplectic group actions and coadjoint orbits, we give a complete list of all classical simple Lie algebras which are local symmetries for a given Hamiltonian vector field

    Pontrjagin–Thom maps and the homology of the moduli stack of stable curves

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    We study the singular homology (with field coefficients) of the moduli stack of stable n-pointed complex curves of genus g (the Deligne-Mumford compactification). Each of its irreducible boundary components determines via the Pontrjagin-Thom construction a map to a certain infinite loop space whose homology is well understood. We show that these maps are surjective on homology in a range of degrees proportional to the genus. This implies the existence of many new torsion classes in the homology of the moduli stack
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