Symplectic

Event Information Symmetries and vector fields
14:10 on Monday November 27, 2017
15:00 on Monday November 27, 2017
BA6183, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
Eugene Lerman

University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign

(Joint work with Dan Berwick-Evans and with Stafan Klajbor-Goderich.)

I will argue that it is useful to think of of invariant vector fields on a manifold with a group action as objects of a groupoid. Isomorphic vector fields are similar dynamically. For example they have the same relative equilibria with the same stability.

More generally multiplicative vector fields on a Lie groupoid are also objects of a groupoid, which behaves well under Morita equivalence. In both cases the groupoids of vector fields are Lie 2-algebras.