Simple Non-Rational Convex Polytopes via Symplectic Geometry

In this article we consider a generalization of manifolds and orbifolds which we call quasifolds; quasifolds of dimension k are locally isomorphic to the quotient of R^k by the action of a discrete group - tipically they are not Hausdorff topological spaces. The analogue of a torus in this geometry is a quasitorus. We define Hamiltonian actions of quasitori on symplectic quasifolds and we show that any simple convex polytope, rational or not, is the image of the moment mapping for a family of effective Hamiltonian actions on symplectic quasifolds having twice the dimension of the corresponding quasitorus.Comment: latex, 16 pages; revised, references added, to appear in Topolog

Duistermaat-Heckman measures in a non-compact setting

We prove a \dh type formula in a suitable non-compact setting. We use this formula to evaluate explicitly the pushforward of the Liouville measure via the moment map of both an abelian and a non-abelian group action. As an application we obtain the classical analogues of well-known multiplicity formulas for the holomorphic discrete series representations.Comment: LaTeX file, 14 page

Nonrational Symplectic Toric Cuts

In this article we extend cutting and blowing up to the nonrational symplectic toric setting. This entails the possibility of cutting and blowing up for symplectic toric manifolds and orbifolds in nonrational directions.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, minor changes in last version, to appear in Internat. J. Mat

Nonrational, nonsimple convex polytopes in symplectic geometry

In this research announcement we associate to each convex polytope, possibly nonrational and nonsimple, a family of compact spaces that are stratified by quasifolds, i.e. the strata are locally modelled by $\R^k$ modulo the action of a discrete, possibly infinite, group. Each stratified space is endowed with a symplectic structure and a moment mapping having the property that its image gives the original polytope back. These spaces may be viewed as a natural generalization of symplectic toric varieties to the nonrational setting. We provide here the explicit construction of these spaces, and a thorough description of the stratification.Comment: LaTeX, 7 page

Generalized toric varieties for simple non-rational convex polytopes

We call complex quasifold of dimension k a space that is locally isomorphic to the quotient of an open subset of the space C^k by the holomorphic action of a discrete group; the analogue of a complex torus in this setting is called a complex quasitorus. We associate to each simple polytope, rational or not, a family of complex quasifolds having same dimension as the polytope, each containing a dense open orbit for the action of a suitable complex quasitorus. We show that each of these spaces M is diffeomorphic to one of the symplectic quasifolds defined in http://arXiv.org/abs/math:SG/9904179, and that the induced symplectic structure is compatible with the complex one, thus defining on M the structure of a Kaehler quasifold. These spaces may be viewed as a generalization of the toric varieties that are usually associated to those simple convex polytopes that are rational.Comment: LaTeX, 19 pages, some changes, final version to appear in Intern. Math. Res. Notice

Nonrational Symplectic Toric Reduction

In this article, we introduce symplectic reduction in the framework of nonrational toric geometry. When we specialize to the rational case, we get symplectic reduction for the action of a general, not necessarily closed, Lie subgroup of the torus.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures. Final version, to appear in J. Geom. Phy

Ammann Tilings in Symplectic Geometry

In this article we study Ammann tilings from the perspective of symplectic geometry. Ammann tilings are nonperiodic tilings that are related to quasicrystals with icosahedral symmetry. We associate to each Ammann tiling two explicitly constructed highly singular symplectic spaces and we show that they are diffeomorphic but not symplectomorphic. These spaces inherit from the tiling its very interesting symmetries

Quasifolds, Diffeology and Noncommutative Geometry

After embedding the objects quasifolds into the category {Diffeology}, we associate a C*-agebra with every atlas of any quasifold, and show how different atlases give Morita equivalent algebras. This builds a new bridge between diffeology and noncommutative geometry (beginning with the today classical example of the irrational torus) which associates a Morita class of C*-algebras with a diffeomorphic class of quasifolds.Comment: 21 pages, 3 figures, final version to appear in J. Noncommut. Geom., notes added in introductio