The Witt classes of torsion linking forms of (4n-1)-manifolds with pseudo-free circle actions

Chern classes of Seifert fibre spaces exceptional orbits plumbing pseudo-free circle action slice representations Witt class of torsion linking forms Witt group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

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For relatively prime integers a and b, w(b/a) denotes an element of the Witt group W(\({\mathbb{Q}}/{\mathbb{Z}})\) of finite forms represented by a form f on \({\mathbb{Z}}/a{\mathbb{Z}}\) defined by \(f(1,1)=b/a\in {\mathbb{Q}}/{\mathbb{Z}}\). Let X be a (4n-1)-dimensional closed oriented manifold admitting a pseudo-free circle action. This paper computes the Witt class of torsion linking forms of X in terms of w(b/a) where a and b range over numbers obtained from slice representations of exceptional orbits in X. As its application it is shown that any Witt class of finite form can be realized as a torsion linking form of X where X has dimension 3.

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