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Symplectic geometry

Lecture 15
Semi-direct products,
their co-adjoint orbits and
their moment maps.
The semi-direct product of a
group with a vector space.
The “matrix”
mnemonic.
The co-adjoint
representation.
Describing the
fibration.
Describing the
fibration, 2.
Describing the
fibration, 3.
“Euclidean” groups.
Some identifications.
The co-adjoint action.
The orbits of SO(V) acting
on V are “spheres”.
The case of E(3).
The zero and two
dimensional orbits of E(3).
The four dimensional co-
adjoint orbits of E(3).
The invariants k and s .
The moment map for E(3) acting
on six-dimensional phase space.
Explicit form of the
moment map.
The inverse image of
the moment map.
Intrinsic angular
momentum.
Units.
Historical science fiction.
The classical meaning
of Planck’s constant.
Co-adjoint orbits of
the Poincare group.
The six types of orbits
of the Lorentz group:
The rest mass.
The positive mass co-
adjoint orbits.
Mass and spin.

Notice, in contrast to what is told in physics courses -


that spin is a purely quantum effect - we see that spin
arises naturally in the classification of the co-adjoint orbits
of the Poincare group.
Quadrupole moments.

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A matrix version.
Relation to the
symplectic group.
The Lie algebra.
The moment map.
The case of H=Sl(n).
The liquid drop.

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