On circle actions with exactly three fixed points

DOI10.1007/S11784-025-01230-2MaRDI QIDQ6938497zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Wiemeler

Publication date 25 August 2025

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11784-025-01230-2

zbMATH Keywords

circle actionsfew fixed pointsorientablespin and unitary manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Equivariant cobordism (57R85) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Review text

This paper studies smooth closed orientable \(S^1\)-manifolds \(M\) with exactly \(3\) fixed points. The author shows that the dimension of \(M\) has the form \(4\cdot 2^a\) or \(8\cdot (2^a+2^b)\) where \(a\), \(b\) are distinct non-negative integers. In addition, he shows that \(\dim M=8\) or \(16\) if \(M\) is spin, and \(\dim M=4\) if \(M\) is unitary (that is, the stable tangent bundle has a complex structure). This result is related to a conjecture by Kosniowski about isolated fixed points of \(S^1\)-actions [\textit{C. Kosniowski}, Lect. Notes Math. 788, 331--339 (1980; Zbl 0433.57016)]. The methods used involve equivariant cohomology, the Hirzebruch signature theorem and the Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne localization formula.

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