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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Hamiltonian Reduction By Stages by Jerrold E. Marsden Gerard Misiolek Juan-Pablo Ortega Matthew Perlmutter Tudor S. Ratiu
This volume provides a detailed account of the theory of symplectic reduction by stages along with numerous illustrations of the theory. It gives special emphasis to group extensions including a detailed discussion of the Euclidean group the oscillator group the Bott-Virasoro group and other groups of matrices. The volume also provides ample background theory on symplectic reduction and cotangent bundle reduction.