Coincidence of the cotangent-bundle and diffeomorphism-group symplectic structures
Let be a two-dimensional sphere, let be the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms, and identify with by right translations and the identification . Under the corresponding identification, regard the diffeomorphism group as a subset of . Coincidence conjecture. The natural symplectic structure on the cotangent bundle coincides with the symplectic structure on the diffeomorphism group , understood as a subset of . This would identify the symplectic geometry arising from the diffeomorphism group with the canonical cotangent-bundle geometry in this Hamiltonian reduction; the supplied text does not indicate whether the assertion has been proved or disproved.
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Boris Khesin and Paul Lee, “Poisson geometry and first integrals of geostrophic equations”, arXiv:0802.4439 (2008).
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