Differential structure of orbit spaces

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 715-755

  Cushman, Richard ^a   Śniatycki, Jȩdrzej ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessible sets; Differential space; Poisson algebra; Proper action; Singular reduction; Symplectic manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035622635     PISSN: 0008414X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CJM-2001-029-1     Document Type: Article

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