On certain symplectic circle actions (Q2369457)

A circle action on a compact symplectic manifold is symplectic if it preserves the symplectic form. In addition, it is Hamiltonian if its generating vector field \(X\) is Hamiltonian that is, if it satisfies \(\iota _X\omega =dH\) where \(H\) is a smooth function on a symplectic manifold called the Hamiltonian function. The author uses localization formulas in equivariant cohomology to show that some symplectic actions on 6-dimensional symplectic manifolds with a finite fixed point set must be Hamiltonian. Moreover, he shows that their fixed point data (number of fixed points and their isotropy weights) is the same as in \(S^2\times S^2\times S^2\), as a symplectic manifold equipped with a diagonal circle action, and computes their cohomology rings.