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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 MM be a smooth 4k4k-dimensional orientable closed manifold, and assume that MM 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 MM being equal to 11 and the A^\hat{A}-genus of MM vanishing cannot hold at the same time except dimM=8,16\dim M=8, 16. As an application, we claim that the dimensions of oriented S1S^1-manifolds with exactly three fixed points are only 4,84, 8 and 1616, and the rational projective plane whose dimension is greater than 1616 has no smooth non-trivial S1S^1-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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