A note on higher cohomology groups of Kähler quotients

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Abstract: Consider a holomorphic torus action on a possibly non-compact K"ahler manifold. We show that the higher cohomology groups appearing in the geometric quantization of the symplectic quotient are isomorphic to the invariant parts of the corresponding cohomology groups of the original manifold. For non-Abelian group actions on compact K"ahler manifolds, this result was proved recently by Teleman and by Braverman. Our approach is applying the holomorphic instanton complex to the prequantum line bundles over the symplectic cuts. We also settle a conjecture of Zhang and the present author on the exact sequence of higher cohomology groups in the context of symplectic cutting.


Let \(G\) be a compact Lie group and \({\mathfrak g}\) its Lie algebra. Suppose \(G\) acts on a symplectic manifold \((X,w)\) in a Hamiltonian fashion, with moment map \(\mu:X\to{\mathfrak g}^*\). If 0 is a regular value of \(\mu\) and \(G\) acts freely on \(\mu^{-1}(0)\), then the symplectic quotient \(X_0= \mu^{-1}(0)/G\) is a smooth symplectic manifold. A prequantum line bundle \(L\) on \((X,w)\) is a complex line bundle whose curvature is \(\frac 1i w\). Suppose such a bundle \(L\) exists and the \(G\)-action lifts to \(L\), then the bundle \(L\) descends to a prequantum line bundle \(L_0\) on \(X_0\). Guillemin and Sternberg show that if \(X\) is compact and Kähler then \[ H^0(X,{\mathcal O}(L))^G\cong H^0(X_0,{\mathcal O}(L_0)). \] In this paper it is shown that \[ H^k(X,{\mathcal O}(L))^G\cong H^k(X_0,{\mathcal O}(L_0)) \] for all \(k\geq 0\) for a class of noncompact Kähler manifolds with \(\mathbb{C}^*\)-actions satisfying certain assumptions.











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