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Equivariant Differential Characters and Symplectic Reduction

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We describe equivariant differential characters (classifying equivariant circle bundles with connections), their prequantization, and reduction.

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    Eugene Lerman & Anton Malkin

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Communicated by S. Zelditch

Supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0603892.

Supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0456714.

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Lerman, E., Malkin, A. Equivariant Differential Characters and Symplectic Reduction. Commun. Math. Phys. 289, 777–801 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-009-0749-9

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