Free circle actions with contractible orbits on symplectic manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00209-005-0841-6MaRDI QIDQ2580977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Kotschick

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410243

zbMATH Keywords

circle actionsymplectic manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91)

Abstract: We prove that closed symplectic four-manifolds do not admit any smooth free circle actions with contractible orbits, without assuming that the actions preserve the symplectic forms. In higher dimensions such actions by symplectomorphisms do exist, and we give explicit examples based on a construction of Fernandez, Gray and Morgan. We also prove that the only compact complex surfaces admitting free circle actions with contractible orbits are primary Hopf surfaces.

Review text

The author proves that a closed symplectic four-manifold does not admit any smooth circle action with contractible orbits. The statement is true without assuming that the action is symplectic. The second result states that in every even dimension bigger than four there exists a closed symplectic manifold with a symplectic free circle action whose orbits are contractible. The six dimensional example is the mapping torus of an orientation preserving diffeomorphism of a K3 surface. Finally, the author proves that a compact complex surface with a free circle action with contractible orbits is a primary Hopf surface diffeomorphic to \(S^3 \times S^1\).

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