Symplectic forms invariant under free circle actions on 4-manifolds

Publication date 17 February 2006

Abstract: Let

M^{4}

be a smooth compact manifold with a free circle action generated by a vector field

X .

Then for any invariant symplectic form

o m e g a

on

M

the contracted form

i o t a_{X} o m e g a

is nondegenerate. Using the map

o m e g a - - > i o t a_{X} o m e g a

and the related map to

H^{1} (M / S^{1}, R)

we study the topology of the space

S_{i n v}

of invariant symplectic forms. In particular we give a description of

p i_{0} S_{i n v} (M^{4})

in terms of the unit Thurston ball.

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