Stabilizers and orbits of circle-valued smooth functions

Abstract: Let

M

be a smooth compact manifold and

P

be either

R^{1}

or

S^{1}

. There is a natural action of the groups

D i f f (M)

and

D i f f (M) i m e s D i f f (P)

on the space of smooth mappings

C^{i n f t y} (M, P)

. For

f i n C^{i n f t y} (M, P)

let

S_{f}

,

S_{M P}

,

O_{f}

, and

O_{M P}

be the stabilizers and orbits of

f

under these actions. Recently, the author proved that under mild conditions on

f i n C^{i n f t y} (M, R^{1})

the corresponding stabilizers and orbits are homotopy equivalent:

S_{M R} s i m S_{M}

and

O_{M R} s i m O_{M}

. These results are extended here to the actions on

C^{i n f t y} (M, S^{1})

. It is proved that under the similar conditions (that are rather typical) we have that

S_{M S} s i m S_{M}

and

O_{M S} s i m O_{M} i m e s S^{1}

.

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