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Victor W Guillemin1, Eva Miranda2,3, Jonathan Weitsman4
1Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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We prove a convexity theorem for the image of the moment map of a Hamiltonian torus action on a bm -symplectic manifold.This article is part of the theme issue 'Finite dimensional integrable systems: new trends and methods'.
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