On nearly semifree circle actions

Publication date 22 March 2005

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05)

Abstract: Recall that an effective circle action is semifree if the stabilizer subgroup of each point is connected. We show that if

(M, o m)

is a coadjoint orbit of a compact Lie group

G

then every element of

p i_{1} (G)

may be represented by a semifree

S^{1}

-action. A theorem of McDuff--Slimowitz then implies that

p i_{1} (G)

injects into

p i_{1} (H a m (M, o m))

, which answers a question raised by Weinstein. We also show that a circle action on a manifold

M

which is semifree near a fixed point

x

cannot contract in a compact Lie subgroup

G

of the diffeomorphism group unless the action is reversed by an element of

G

that fixes the point

x

. Similarly, if a circle acts in a Hamiltonian fashion on a manifold

(M, o m e g a)

and the stabilizer of every point has at most two components, then the circle cannot contract in a compact Lie subgroup of the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphism unless the circle is reversed by an element of

G

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