Hamiltonian circle actions with minimal fixed sets

DOI10.1142/S0129167X12500711MaRDI QIDQ2909473zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hui Li, Susan Tolman

Publication date 30 August 2012

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4049

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classesequivariant cohomologyHamiltonian circle actionmoment mapsymplectic manifoldsymplectic quotient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: Consider an effective Hamiltonian circle action on a compact symplectic $2n$-dimensional manifold $(M,omega)$. Assume that the fixed set $M^{S^1}$ is {em minimal}, in two senses: it has exactly two components, $X$ and $Y$, and $dim(X)+dim(Y)=dim(M)-2$. We prove that the integral cohomology ring and Chern classes of $M$ are isomorphic to either those of $C{P}^n$ or (if $neq1$ is odd) to those of $G{t}_2(R^{n+2})$, the Grassmannian of oriented two-planes in $R^{n+2}$. In particular, $$ for all $i$, and the Chern classes of $M$ are determined by the integral cohomology {em ring}. We also prove that the fixed set data of $M$ agrees exactly with the fixed set data for one of the standard circle actions on one of these two manifolds. In particular, we show that there are no points with stabilizer $$ for any $k>2$. The same conclusions hold when $M^{S^1}$ has exactly two components and the even Betti numbers of $M$ are minimal, that is, $b_{2i}(M)=1$ for all $iin0,\mathrm{...},1/2dim(M)$. This provides additional evidence that very few symplectic manifolds with minimal even Betti numbers admit Hamiltonian actions.

Review text

The authors consider an effective Hamiltonian circle action on a compact symplectic \(2n\)-dimensional manifold \((M, \omega)\).NEWLINENEWLINE Under the condition that the fixed point set has two components \(X\) and \(Y\), and \(\dim X + \dim Y = \dim M - 2\), they prove that the integral cohomology ring and Chern classes of \(M\) are isomorphic to either those of \(\mathbb{C}P^n\) or, if \(n \neq 1\) is odd, to those of the Grassmannian of oriented two-planes in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+2}\) (Theorem 1). Also, they find the integral cohomology ring and Chern classes of \(X\) and \(Y\) (Theorem 2). The paper contains detailed proofs of these results which include many other useful statements.

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