Circle actions on symplectic four-manifolds

DOI10.4310/CAG.2019.V27.N2.A6MaRDI QIDQ2321853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Liat Kessler, Tara S. Holm

Publication date 26 August 2019

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05972

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfaceGromov-Witten invariantsmomentum mapHamiltonian actionsblowups of \(S^2\)-bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We complete the classification of Hamiltonian torus and circle actions on symplectic four-dimensional manifolds. Following work of Delzant and Karshon, Hamiltonian circle and 2-torus actions on any fixed simply connected symplectic four-manifold were characterized by Karshon, Kessler and Pinsonnault. What remains is to study the case of Hamiltonian actions on blowups of S^2-bundles over a Riemann surface of positive genus. These do not admit 2-torus actions. In this paper, we characterize Hamiltonian circle actions on them. We then derive combinatorial results on the existence and counting of these actions. As a by-product, we provide an algorithm that determines the g-reduced form of a blowup form. Our work is a combination of "soft" equivariant and combinatorial techniques, using the momentum map and related data, with "hard" holomorphic techniques, including Gromov-Witten invariants.

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