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The papers during this quantity are an outgrowth of the lectures and casual discussions that happened throughout the workshop on "The Geometry of Hamiltonian platforms" which was once held at MSRl from June five to sixteen, 1989. It was once, in a few experience, the final significant occasion of the year-long software on Symplectic Geometry and Mechanics. The emphasis of the entire talks was once on Hamiltonian dynamics and its courting to a number of facets of symplectic geometry and topology, mechanics, and dynamical structures normally. The organizers of the convention have been R. Devaney (co-chairman), H. Flaschka (co-chairman), okay. Meyer, and T. Ratiu. the whole assembly used to be outfitted round mini-courses of 5 lectures every one and a sequence of 2 expository lectures. the 1st of the mini-courses used to be given through A. T. Fomenko, who offered the paintings of his staff at Moscow college at the type of integrable platforms. the second one mini­ direction used to be given via J. Marsden of UC Berkeley, who spoke approximately numerous purposes of symplectic and Poisson relief to difficulties in balance, general kinds, and symmetric Hamiltonian bifurcation conception. ultimately, the 2 expository talks got by means of A. Fathi of the collage of Florida who targeting the hyperlinks among symplectic geometry, dynamical platforms, and Teichmiiller theory.

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Otherwise, we can extend liS. n N smoothly to Si because 1 belongs to WOO(N) and Si is a submanifold of M. As above we can average over the orbits of the isotropy group on Si and extend to a Ginvariant function Fi on the sweep. Now define F belonging to COO(M)G by setting F = Li hi . F;. It is clear that F has the desired properties. 0 Corollary 1 COO(M)G separates G-orbits in M. Proof: Let N = On U Om and let 1 = 1 on Om and 1 = 0 on On; such a function exists and belongs to WOO(N) since these orbits are closed, embedded submanifolds of M (because the action is proper).

Proof: Let N = On U Om and let 1 = 1 on Om and 1 = 0 on On; such a function exists and belongs to WOO(N) since these orbits are closed, embedded submanifolds of M (because the action is proper). Thus by proposition 2, 1 has an invariant extension F which separates Om and On. 0 Another consequence of the existence of slices is that the singularities of J must have a particularly simple form. Proposition 3 For each p, E J(M), the singularities of J-l(p,) are quadratic. 1 of [13]). Define an action of G on M x 01' by (g,(m,v» ~ (g.

Equivalently Ml is the semi algebraic variety in R3 defined by (1 - 0'~)0'3 = O'~ + f2 with 10'11 ~ 1 & 0'3 ~ O. When l graph of the function #- 0, M( _0'~+f2 is diffeomorphic to R2, being the I I 2 ' 0'1 < 1. - 0'1 When l = 0, Mo is not the graph of a function, because it contains the vertical lines {(±1, 0, 0'3) E R310'3 ~ O} (see figure 2). However, this singular space is still homeomorphic to R2. H. Arms et al. 1 1=0 Figure 2. The reduced spaces Mi. Next we compute the Poisson structure on T 52 / 51.

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