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We study properties of the canonical reduction method on cotangent symplectic manifolds with group action. We demonstrate a deep inner relationship between reduced symplectic structures and canonical connections on associated principal fiber bundles.
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Translated from Neliniini Kolyvannya, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 98½-108, January–March, 2006.
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Prykarpats’kyi, Y.A. Canonical reduction on cotangent symplectic manifolds with group action and on associated principal fiber bundles with connection. Nonlinear Oscill 9, 96–106 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11072-006-0028-z
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