On the Chern numbers for pseudo-free circle actions

DOI10.4310/JSG.2019.V17.N1.A1MaRDI QIDQ2336005zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Byunghee An, Yunhyung Cho

Publication date 18 November 2019

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01954

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classcircle actionorbifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Abstract: Let $(M,psi)$ be a $(2n+1)$-dimensional oriented closed manifold equipped with a pseudo-free $S^1$-action $psi:S^{1}imesMightarrowM$. We first define a extit{local data} $mathcalL(M,psi)$ of the action $psi$ which consists of pairs $(C,(p(C);overrightarrowq(C)))$ where $C$ is an exceptional orbit, $p(C)$ is the order of isotropy subgroup of $C$, and $overrightarrowq(C)in(mathbb{Z}_{p(C)}^{imes}{)}^n$ is a vector whose entries are the weights of the slice representation of $C$. In this paper, we give an explicit formula of the Chern number $langle{c}_1(E{)}^n,[M/S^1]angle$ modulo $mathbbZ$ in terms of the local data, where $E=Mime{s}_{S^1}mathbbC$ is the associated complex line orbibundle over $M/S^1$. Also, we illustrate several applications to various problems arising in equivariant symplectic topology.

Review text

In this article, the authors study differentiable, pseudo-free (action without fixed points and with finitely many exceptional orbits) actions (\(\psi\)) of the circle group \(S^1\) on an odd-dimensional compact manifold \(M\). The authors define an invariant, denoted by \(e(M,\psi)\), (\(\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}\)-valued, using a theorem in [\textit{A. Weinstein}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 30, 265--271 (1977; Zbl 0339.58007)]). The invariant is the Chern number of the line orbibundle over the orbimanifold \(B=M/S^1\). The authors prove \[ e(M,\psi)=\sum_{C\in \mathcal{E}}\dfrac{q_1(C)^{-1}q_2(C)^{-1}\cdots q_n(C)^{-1}}{p(C)}\mod\mathbb{Z}, \] where \(p(C)\) is the order of the stabilizer of the exceptional orbit \(C\) and \(q_i(C)\) are certain integers associated with the isotropy representation of \(\mathbb{Z}_{p(C)}\). The authors deduce some corollaries of this formula, such as vanishing of this invariant when \(M\) is a product manifold or when the action preserves an almost complex structure or when \(M\) and the action are symplectic. Also, some consequences of the vanishing of this invariant are deduced. There is also a conjecture related to a certain power in [loc. cit.].

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