Circle actions on almost complex manifolds with isolated fixed points (Q2360626)

This paper is devoted to the classification of circle action \(S\) on a compact connected almost complex manifold \(M\) with at most three fixed points. If there are exactly three fixed points, then the dimension of the manifold \(M\) is equal to 4 and the weights at the fixed points coincide with those of a standard circle action on the complex projective plane \(\mathbb C \mathbb P^2\). The basic idea of the proof is to follow that of the corresponding result on symplectic manifolds in [the author, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 34, No. 6, 1930--1963 (2014; Zbl 1306.53073)]. The main result naturally includes the previous results on symplectic manifolds and complex manifolds. Moreover, it is proved that if the Chen class map of a circle action on a compact almost complex manifold \(M\) is somewhere injective, then the action has at least \(\text{dim}(M)/2+1\) fixed points.