Toric structures on near-symplectic 4-manifolds

DOI10.4171/JEMS/157zbMATH Open1175.57017arXivmath/0609753OpenAlexW2074455858MaRDI QIDQ1024255FDOQ1024255

Margaret Symington, David Gay

Publication date: 16 June 2009

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A near-symplectic structure on a 4-manifold is a closed 2-form that is symplectic away from the 1-dimensional submanifold along which it vanishes and that satisfies a certain transversality condition along this vanishing locus. We investigate near-symplectic 4-manifolds equipped with singular Lagrangian torus fibrations which are locally induced by effective Hamiltonian torus actions. We show how such a structure is completely characterized by a singular integral affine structure on the base of the fibration whenever the vanishing locus is nonempty. The base equipped with this geometric structure generalizes the moment map image of a toric 4-manifold in the spirit of earlier work by the second author on almost toric symplectic 4-manifolds. We use the geometric structure on the base to investigate the problem of making given smooth torus actions on 4-manifolds symplectic or Hamiltonian with respect to near-symplectic structures and to give interesting constructions of structures which are locally given by torus actions but have nontrivial global monodromy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609753

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltoniansymplectictoric4-manifoldtorus actionLagrangian fibrationnear-symplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Cited In (5)

• The topology of symplectic partially hyperbolic automorphisms of the 4-torus
• Maximal compact tori in the Hamiltonian group of 4-dimensional symplectic manifolds
• Symplectic structures on \(T^ 2\)-bundles over \(T^ 2\)
• Counting toric actions on symplectic four-manifolds
• Local torus actions modeled on the standard representation

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