2009-09-25

Timothy Goldberg, Cornell University

Hamiltonian actions in generalized complex geometry

Generalized complex (GC) geometry is a relatively new field of study that has its roots in Dirac geometry, and can be seen as generalizing Poisson, complex, and symplectic geometry. Many concepts and methods from symplectic geometry have been generalized and applied to GC geometry. For instance, in 2006 Yi Lin and Susan Tolman developed a notion of generalized Hamiltonian actions and generalized moment maps. These maps have proven to have many properties analogous to their symplectic counterparts.

In this talk, I will give an introduction to GC geometry and generalized Hamiltonian actions, and discuss the reduction of a GC manifold by a generalized Hamiltonian action.