Dual Pairs and Regularization of Kummer Shapes in Resonances

Abstract

We present an account of dual pairs and the Kummer shapes for $n:m$ resonances that provides an alternative to Holm and Vizman's work. The advantages of our point of view are that the associated Poisson structure on $\mathfrak{su}(2{)}^{\ast }$ is the standard $(+)$-Lie--Poisson bracket independent of the values of $(n,m)$ as well as that the Kummer shape is regularized to become a sphere without any pinches regardless of the values of $(n,m)$. A similar result holds for $n:-m$ resonance with a paraboloid and $\mathfrak{su}(1,1{)}^{\ast }$. The result also has a straightforward generalization to multidimensional resonances as well.

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