Coincidence of the cotangent-bundle and diffeomorphism-group symplectic structures

Let M=S2M=S^2 be a two-dimensional sphere, let Dμ\mathcal{D}_\mu be the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms, and identify TDμT^*\mathcal{D}_\mu with Dμ×Ω02\mathcal{D}_\mu\times\Omega_0^2 by right translations and the identification XμΩ02\mathfrak{X}_\mu^*\simeq\Omega_0^2. Under the corresponding identification, regard the diffeomorphism group D\mathcal{D} as a subset of TDμT^*\mathcal{D}_\mu. Coincidence conjecture. The natural symplectic structure WTW^{T^*} on the cotangent bundle TDμT^*\mathcal{D}_\mu coincides with the symplectic structure WDW^\mathcal{D} on the diffeomorphism group D\mathcal{D}, understood as a subset of TDμT^*\mathcal{D}_\mu. 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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