The Log-Concavity Conjecture for the Duistermaat-Heckman Measure Revisited

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNN027zbMATH Open1148.53064arXivmath/0703297OpenAlexW2007010982WikidataQ123008737 ScholiaQ123008737MaRDI QIDQ3515972FDOQ3515972

Authors: Yi Lin 

Publication date: 30 July 2008

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Karshon constructed the first counterexample to the log-concavity conjecture for the Duistermaat-Heckman measure: a Hamiltonian six manifold whose fixed points set is the disjoint union of two copies of $T^4$. In this article, for any closed symplectic four manifold $N$ with $b+$ greater than 1, we show that there is a Hamiltonian six manifold $M$ such that its fixed points set is the disjoint union of two copies of $N$ and such that its Duistermaat-Heckman function is not log-concave. On the other hand, we prove that if there is a torus action of complexity two such that all the symplectic reduced spaces taken at regular values satisfy the condition $b+=1$, then its Duistermaat-Heckman function has to be log-concave. As a consequence, we prove the log-concavity conjecture for Hamiltonian circle actions on six manifolds such that the fixed points sets have no four dimensional components, or only have four dimensional pieces with $b+=1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703297

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zbMATH Keywords

log-concavityDuistermaat-Heckman measureHamiltonian six-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

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