Circle actions on symplectic four-manifolds

DOI10.4310/CAG.2019.V27.N2.A6zbMATH Open1489.53113arXiv1507.05972OpenAlexW2969404769WikidataQ127336094 ScholiaQ127336094MaRDI QIDQ2321853FDOQ2321853

Authors: Liat Kessler, Tara S. Holm 

Publication date: 26 August 2019

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

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.

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

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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)

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