Free circle actions with contractible orbits on symplectic manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00209-005-0841-6zbMATH Open1085.57021arXivmath/0410243OpenAlexW3106244920MaRDI QIDQ2580977FDOQ2580977

Authors: D. Kotschick 

Publication date: 10 January 2006

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic manifoldcircle action

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)

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