Parallel transport along Seifert manifolds and fractional monodromy (Q2411632)

The authors investigate the concept of fractional monodromy in integrable Hamiltonian systems. To do this they look first at Seifert fibrations in a very general setting. (For a compact orientable three-manifold \(X\), closed or with boundary, that is invariant under an effective fixed point free \(S'\) action that is free on the boundary of \(X\), \(p:X\to B= X/S'\) is a Seifert fibration.) The authors show that parallel transport along the total space of such a fibration is unique and is determined by its Euler number and the orders of the exceptional orbits. Where the Seifert fibration has an equivariant filling, the Euler number can be computed from the fixed points of the circle action inside the filling manifolds. After reviewing the concepts of standard and fractional monodromy, the authors apply their results to fractional monodromy for integrable Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. Here their theorems specify the subgroup of homology cycles that allow parallel transport, and then give a formula for compating the fractional monodromy. The authors suggest that the fixed points of the circle action are more important (for both standard and fractional monodromy) than the specific form of the integral map. Finally, they provide examples for \(\mathbb{R}^4\) and \(S^2\times S^2\).