Non-existence of circle actions on oriented manifolds with three fixed points except in dimensions 4, 8 and 16
Geometric Topology
2023-11-14 v1 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
Let be a smooth -dimensional orientable closed manifold, and assume that has at most two non-zero Pontrjagin numbers which are associated to the top dimensional Pontrjagin class and the square of the middle dimensional Pontrjagin class. We prove that the signature of being equal to and the -genus of vanishing cannot hold at the same time except . As an application, we claim that the dimensions of oriented -manifolds with exactly three fixed points are only and , and the rational projective plane whose dimension is greater than has no smooth non-trivial -action.
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@article{arxiv.2311.06779,
title = {Non-existence of circle actions on oriented manifolds with three fixed points except in dimensions 4, 8 and 16},
author = {Hao Dong and Jianbo Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06779},
year = {2023}
}
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