Equivariant cohomology of K-contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00208-011-0767-8zbMATH Open1258.53089arXiv1102.4476OpenAlexW2109190940MaRDI QIDQ695280FDOQ695280

Dirk Töben, Oliver Goertsches, Hiraku Nozawa

Publication date: 20 December 2012

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the equivariant cohomology of the natural torus action on a K-contact manifold and its relation to the topology of the Reeb flow. Using the contact moment map, we show that the equivariant cohomology of this action is Cohen-Macaulay, which is a generalization of equivariant formality for torus actions without fixed points. As a consequence, a generic component of the contact moment map is a perfect Morse-Bott function for the basic cohomology of the orbit foliation F of the Reeb flow. Assuming that the closed Reeb orbits are isolated, we show that the basic cohomology of F is trivial in odd degrees, and its dimension equals the number of closed Reeb orbits. We characterize the K-contact manifolds with minimal number of closed Reeb orbits as real cohomology spheres. We also prove a GKM type theorem for K-contact manifolds, which allows us to calculate the equivariant cohomology algebra of K-contact manifolds in presence of the nonisolated GKM condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4476

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyReeb flowtorus action\(K\)-contact manifoldcontact moment map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

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• \(K\)-cosymplectic manifolds
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