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Triviality of symplectic SU(2)-actions on homology

Symplectic Geometry 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Lalonde and McDuff showed that the natural action of the rational homology of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold (M,ω)(M, \omega) on the rational homology groups H(M,Q)H_*(M,{\mathbb Q}) is trivial. In this note, given a symplectic action of SU(2), ϕ:SU(2)×MM\phi:SU(2)\times M \to M, we will construct a symplectic fiber bundle PϕCP2P_\phi\to {\mathbb CP}^2 with fiber (M,ω)(M,\omega) and use it to construct the chains, which bound the images of the homology cycles under the trace map given by the SU(2)-action. It turns out that the natural chains bounded by the SU(2)-orbits in MM are punctured CP2{\mathbb CP}^2's, the counter parts of holomorphic discs bounding circles in case of Hamiltonian circle actions. We will also define some invariants of the action ϕ\phi and do some explicit calculations.

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@article{arxiv.math/0404121,
  title  = {Triviality of symplectic SU(2)-actions on homology},
  author = {Yildiray Ozan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404121},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, some typos and errors corrected