On cohomology of invariant submanifolds of Hamiltonian actions

Abstract: In this note we prove the following theorem: Let

G

be a compact Lie group acting on a compact symplectic manifold

M

in a Hamiltonian fashion. If

L

is an

l

-dimensional closed invariant submanifold of

M

, on which the

G

-action is locally free then the fundamental class

[L]

is trivial in

H_{l} (M, m a t h b b Q)

. We also prove similar results for lower homology groups of

L

, in case the group

G

is a finite product of copies of

S^{1}

and SU(2). The key ingredients of the proofs are Kirwan's theorem that Hamiltonian spaces are equivariantly formal and symplectic reduction.

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