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Hamiltonian circle actions on eight dimensional manifolds with minimal fixed sets

Symplectic Geometry 2017-08-08 v2

Abstract

Consider a Hamiltonian circle action on a closed 88-dimensional symplectic manifold MM with exactly five fixed points, which is the smallest possible fixed set. In their paper, L. Godinho and S. Sabatini show that if MM satisfies an extra "positivity condition" then the isotropy weights at the fixed points of MM agree with those of some linear action on CP4\mathbb{CP}^4. Therefore, the (equivariant) cohomology rings and the (equivariant) Chern classes of MM and CP4\mathbb{CP}^4 agree; in particular, H(M;Z)Z[y]/y5H^*(M;\mathbb{Z}) \simeq \mathbb{Z}[y]/y^5 and c(TM)=(1+y)5c(TM) = (1+y)^5. In this paper, we prove that this positivity condition always holds for these manifolds. This completes the proof of the "symplectic Petrie conjecture" for Hamiltonian circle actions on on 8-dimensional closed symplectic manifolds with minimal fixed sets.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6580,
  title  = {Hamiltonian circle actions on eight dimensional manifolds with minimal fixed sets},
  author = {Donghoon Jang and Susan Tolman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6580},
  year   = {2017}
}

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