The Conley-Zehnder indices of the Reeb flow action along \(S^1\)-fibers over certain orbifolds (Q1736073): Difference between revisions

The Conley-Zehnder index for a path of symplectic matrices is an important tool in the study of symplectic (co)homology. In this paper, the author counts the Conley-Zehnder index of certain Reeb orbits in the orbifold setting. Let \((Z,\omega)\) be a Hodge orbifold with an \({\mathbb{S}}^1\)-orbibundle \(\pi\colon M\to Z\). Assume the total space \(M\) is a manifold with a \(K\)-contact structure \((\xi, \eta, \Phi, g)\), where \(d\eta=\pi^\ast\omega\). Assume \(\pi^{\mathrm{orb}}_1(Z)=0\). Moreover, assume that there is an integer \(b_Z\) such that the first orbifold Chern class of the tangent bundle of \(Z\) equals \(-b_Z[\omega]\in H^2(Z,{\mathbb{Q}})\). Let \(\gamma\) be an orbit, and let \(\Gamma_q\) denote the isotropy group at \(q=\pi(\gamma)\). The main theorem states that the Conley-Zehnder index of the Reeb vector flow action along \(\gamma\) wound \(\vert \Gamma_q\vert\)-times is \[ \mu_{CZ}(\vert \Gamma_q\vert\cdot \gamma)=2b_Z. \] If \(\gamma\) is a principal orbit, then \(\vert\Gamma_q\vert=1\), and the Conley-Zehnder index, denoted by \(\mu_P(Z)\), is \(\mu_{CZ}(\gamma)=2b_Z\). The result is an orbifold version of analogous results for symplectic manifolds in [\textit{O. van Koert}, ``Simple computations in prequantization bundles'', Preprint, \url{http://www.math.snu.ac.kr/~okoert/tools/CZ_index_BW_bundle.pdf}]. The author then applies the main result to study weighted projective spaces \({\mathbb{P}}(\mathbf{w})\), with weights \(\mathbf{w}=(w_0, w_1,\ldots, w_n)\), where \(\gcd(w_0, w_1, \ldots, w_n)=1\). He shows that \({\mathbb{P}}(\mathbf{w})\) has an orbifold structure satisfying the conditions of the main theorem. When \({\mathbb{P}}(\mathbf{w})\) is equipped with this structure, \(\mu_P({\mathbb{P}}(\mathbf{w}))=2\sum_{j=0}^{n} w_j\).