Generalized Reduction Procedure: Symplectic and Poisson Formalism

Abstract

We present a generalized reduction procedure which encompasses the one based on the momentum map and the projection method. By using the duality between manifolds and ring of functions defined on them, we have cast our procedure in an algebraic context. In this framework we give a simple example of reduction in the non-commutative setting.

39 pages, Latex file, Vienna ESI 28 (1993)