Abelianization and the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem

Abstract

Fix a compact connected Lie group $G$ with Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, as well as a strong Gelfand-Cetlin datum on ${\mathfrak{g}}^{\ast }$. Let us also fix a connected symplectic manifold $M$ endowed with an effective Hamiltonian $G$-action and proper moment map. We associate to such information a measure on ${\mathbb{R}}^{\mathrm{b}}$, where $\mathrm{b}=\frac{1}{2}(\dim G+\mathrm{rank}G)$. We also express the Radon-Nikodym derivative of this measure in terms of the volumes of the symplectic quotients of $M$ by $G$, and thereby prove a non-abelian version of the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem.