Momentum maps and reduction in algebraic geometry

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 135-171

  Kirwan, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Moduli space; Momentum map; Reduction; Symplectic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032135311     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(98)00020-5     Document Type: Article

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