On nearly semifree circle actions

arXivmath/0503467MaRDI QIDQ6475285FDOQ6475285

Authors: Dusa McDuff, Susan Tolman 

Publication date: 22 March 2005

Abstract: Recall that an effective circle action is semifree if the stabilizer subgroup of each point is connected. We show that if $(M,om)$ 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 $p{i}_1(Ham(M,om))$, 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 $(M,omega)$ 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 $G$

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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