Sunday, 30 December 2018

classical mechanics - What is the momentum mapping for a left translation group action?


This question is a follow-up to a previous question. In this survey of Symplectic Geometry by Arnol'd and Givental, the example of a constant-speed moving particle considered in the previous question was briefly mentioned on Page 62 as follows:



The action of the group by left translations on its cotangent bundle is Poisson. The corresponding momentum mapping $P:T^*G \to \mathfrak{g}^*$ coincides with the right translation of covectors to the identity element of the group.



We can take $G = \mathbb{R}$ to reduce to our example. Then $T^*G \cong \mathbb{R}^2$, $\mathfrak{g}^* \cong \mathbb{R}$, and the identity element of the group $\mathbb{R}$ is zero.


How does the momentum mapping $P: \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ coincide with the right translation of covectors to zero?



So I'm asking what exactly the map $P$ is and what Arnol'd and Givental mean by "the right translation of covectors to zero".




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