On positively curved four-manifolds with S^1-symmetry

DOI10.1142/S0129167X11007197zbMATH Open1227.53051arXiv0810.1232OpenAlexW2104710467MaRDI QIDQ3094367FDOQ3094367

Authors: Jin Hong Kim 

Publication date: 24 October 2011

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known by the work of Hsiang and Kleiner that every closed oriented positively curved 4-dimensional manifold with an effective isometric S^1-action is homeomorphic to S^4 or CP^2. As stated, it is a topological classification. The primary goal of this paper is to show that it is indeed a diffeomorphism classification for such 4-dimensional manifolds. The proof of this diffeomorphism classification also shows an even stronger statement that every positively curved simply connected 4-manifold with an isometric circle action admits another smooth circle action which extends to a 2-dimensional torus action and is equivariantly diffeomorphic to a linear action on S^4 or CP^2. The main strategy is to analyze all possible topological configurations of effective circle actions on simply connected 4-manifolds by using the so-called replacement trick of Pao.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1232

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zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism classificationpositive curvaturefixed point setsfour-manifoldweighted orbit spacecircle symmetryeffective circle action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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