nLab presymplectic reduction

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Symplectic geometry

Physics

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Idea

The generalization of symplectic reduction from symplectic manifolds to presymplectic manifolds.

Reductions of (pre-)symplectic manifolds:

symplectic geometryphysics
presymplectic manifoldcovariant phase space
\downarrow gauge reduction\downarrow quotient by gauge symmetry
symplectic manifoldreduced phase space
\downarrow symplectic reduction\downarrow quotient by global symmetry
symplectic manifoldreduced phase space

References

  • Francesco Bottacin, A Marsden-Weinstein reduction for presymplectic manifolds (pdf)

  • A. Echeverría-Enríquez, M.C. Muñoz-Lecanda, N. Román-Roy, Reduction of Presymplectic Manifolds with Symmetry (arXiv:math-ph/9911008)

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