Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Mechanics

Hans Duistermaat made substantial contributions to a host of mathematical theories, including Lie groups and differential calculus. This refereed volume contains important new results in some of these areas, demonstrating the impact of Duistermaat's research.

Hans Duistermaat, an influential geometer-analyst, made substantial contributions to the theory of ordinary and partial differential equations, symplectic, differential, and algebraic geometry, minimal surfaces, semisimple Lie groups, mechanics, mathematical physics, and related fields. Written in his honor, the invited and refereed articles in this volume contain important new results as well as surveys in some of these areas, clearly demonstrating the impact of Duistermaat's research and, in addition, exhibiting interrelationships among many of the topics.

Contributors include J.-M. Bismut, L. Boutet de Monvel, Y. Colin de Verdière, R.H. Cushman, N. Dencker, F.A. Grünbaum, V.W. Guillemin, J.-C. Hausmann, G. Heckman, T. Holm, L.C. Jeffrey, F. Kirwan, E. Leichtnam, B. McLellan, E. Meinrenken, P.-E. Paradan, J. Sjöstrand, X. Tang, S. V Ngc, A. Weinstein.

Invited articles written by prominent researchers in the field Broad collection of topics highlights Duistermaat's wide range of research and influence The articles cover a wide area of fields, including symplectic, differential, and algebraic geometry, mechanics, and mathematical physics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Preface.- About J.J. Duistermaat.- Hans Duistermaat (1942-2010).- Recollections of Hans Duistermaat.- Recollections of Hans Duistermaat.- Recollections of Hans Duistermaat.- Classical Mechanics and Hans Duistermaat.- Duistermaat-Heckman formulas and index theory.- Asymptotic equivariant index of Toeplitz operators and relative index of CR structures.- A semi-classical inverse problem I: Taylor expansions.- A semi-classical inverse problem II: reconstruction of the potential.- On the solvability of systems of pseudodifferential operators.- The Darboux process and a noncommutative bispectral problem: some explorations and challenges.- Conjugation spaces and edges of compatible torus actions.- Non-Abelian localization for U(1) Chern-Simons theory.- Symplectic implosion and non-reductive quotients.- Quantization of q-Hamiltonian SU(2)-spaces.- Wall-crossing formulas in Hamiltonian geometry.- Eigenvalue distributions and Weyl laws for semi-classical non-self-adjoint operators in 2 dimensions.- Symplectic inverse spectral theory for pseudodifferential operators.