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POLYTOPES AND HAMILTONIAN GEOMETRY: STACKS, TORIC DEGENERATIONS, AND PARTIAL TROPICALIZATION

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Hoffman_cornellgrad_0058F_11948.pdf (3.61 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/rmc1-tv22
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70413
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Author
Hoffman, Benjamin S
Abstract

I present three papers written on the theme of the interaction between polyhedra and Hamil- tonian mechanics. In the first, I extend Delzant’s classification of toric symplectic mani- folds to a classification of toric symplectic stacks. These are singular objects whose moment polytopes may be irrational. In the second, with Jeremy Lane we construct a completely integrable system on the dual of the Lie algebra of a compact group. This generalizes the celebrated Gelfand-Zeitlin system. The third concerns a construction called partial tropi- calization, which was motivated by considering the limits of families of Poisson structures on certain Poisson-Lie groups. Together with Anton Alekseev, Jeremy Lane, and Yanpeng Li, we develop basic results about partial tropicalizations and use them to build symplectic embeddings into multiplicity-free spaces.

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239 pages
Date Issued
2020-05
Keywords
Symplectic Geometry
Committee Chair
Sjamaar, Reyer
Committee Member
Riley, Tara
Berest, Yuri
Degree Discipline
Mathematics
Degree Name
Ph. D., Mathematics
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
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Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254410

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