Darboux coordinates on coadjoint orbits of Lie algebras

Mar, 1996
16 pages
Published in:
  • Lett.Math.Phys. 40 (1997) 41-57
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Report number:
  • CRM-2338

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Abstract:
The method of constructing spectral Darboux coordinates on finite dimensional coadjoint orbits in duals of loop algebras is applied to the one pole case, where the orbit is identified with a coadjoint orbit in the dual of a finite dimensional Lie algebra. The constructions are carried out explicitly when the Lie algebra is sl(2,R), sl(3,R),\frak{sl}(2,\bold R),\ \frak{sl}(3, \bold R), and so(3,R)\frak{so}(3, \bold R), and for rank two orbits in so(n,R)\frak{so}(n, \bold R). A new feature that appears is the possibility of identifying spectral Darboux coordinates associated to ``dynamical" choices of sections of the associated eigenvector line bundles; i.e. sections that depend on the point within the given orbit.