%0 Journal Article %T A connectedness property of algebraic moment maps %A Friedrich Knop %J Mathematics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0021-8693(02)00509-4 %X Let a connected reductive group G act on the smooth connected variety X. The cotangent bundle of X is a Hamiltonian G-variety. We show that its "total moment map" has connected fibers. This is an expanded version of section 6 of my paper dg-ga/9712010 on Weyl groups of Hamiltonian manifolds. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108069v1