Openness of momentum maps and persistence of extremal relative equilibria

Topology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 833-844

  Montaldi, James ^a   Tokieda, Tadashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Momentum maps; Relative equilibria; Symmetric Hamiltonian systems; Symplectic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037411489     PISSN: 00409383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-9383(02)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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