Cohomology rings of symplectic cuts

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(99)00027-3MaRDI QIDQ1807648zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean-Claude Hausmann, Allen Knutson

Publication date 8 February 2000

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807018

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian actionsmomentum mapsymplectic structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: The ``symplectic cut construction [Lerman] produces two symplectic orbifolds $C_{-}$ and $C_{+}$ from a symplectic manifold $M$ with a Hamiltonian circle action. We compute the rational cohomology ring of $C_{+}$ in terms of those of $M$ and $C_{-}$.

Review text

Following \textit{E. Lerman} [Math. Res. Lett. 2, No.~3, 247-258 (1995; Zbl 0835.53034)] the authors study the symplectic cuts \(C_+,C_-\) of the symplectic manifold \(M\) endowed with a Hamiltonian \(S^1\)-action with momentum map \(f:M\to R\). \(C_+,C_-\) are the quotient spaces of \(M_+=f^{-1} (R_{\geq 0})\), \(M_-= f^{-1}(R_{\leq 0})\) according to the equivalence relation on \(M\) distinguishing points from \(M_+-M_0\), \(M_--M_0\) and identifying those from the orbits of an \(S^1\)-action. The authors compute the rational cohomology ring \(H^* (C_+,Q)\) and \(H^*(C_0,Q)\) in terms of those of \(M\) and \(C_-\). They prove that the cohomology ring \(H^*(C_+,Q)\) is isomorphic as a graded ring to \(\text{ker} (p^*-i^*)\) divided by some canonical ideal in \(\text{ker} (p^*-i^*)\). Here \(p: M_\pm \to C_\pm\) are the various projections, \(i\) is any inclusion between spaces, and \(p^*- i^*:H^*(C_-) \oplus H^*(M)\to H^*(M_-)\) is the group homomorphism.

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• Symplectic cuts
• Connected sums of simplicial complexes and equivariant cohomology
• The cohomology rings of symplectic quotients
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