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Four dimensional almost complex torus manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-04-25 v2 Algebraic Geometry Algebraic Topology Geometric Topology

Abstract

In dimension 4, we extend the correspondence between compact nonsingular toric varieties and regular fans to a correspondence between almost complex torus manifolds and families of multi-fans in a geometric way, where an (almost) complex torus manifold is a 2n2n-dimensional compact connected (almost) complex manifold equipped with an effective action of a real nn-dimensional torus TnT^n that has fixed points. Let MM be a 4-dimensional almost complex torus manifold. To MM, we associate two equivalent combinatorial objects, a family Δ\Delta of multi-fans and a graph Γ\Gamma, which encode the data on the fixed point set. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for each of Δ\Delta and Γ\Gamma. Moreover, we provide a minimal model and operations for each of Δ\Delta and Γ\Gamma. We introduce operations on a multi-fan and a graph that correspond to blow up and down of a manifold, and show that we can blow up and down MM to a minimal manifold MM' whose weights at the fixed points are unit vectors in Z2\mathbb{Z}^2, Δ\Delta to a family of minimal multi-fans that has unit vectors only, and Γ\Gamma to a minimal graph whose edges all have unit vectors as labels. As an application, if MM is complex, Δ\Delta is a fan and determines MM, Γ\Gamma encodes the equivariant cohomology of MM, and MM' is CP1×CP1\mathbb{CP}^1 \times \mathbb{CP}^1. This implies that any two 4-dimensional complex torus manifolds are obtained from each other by equivariant blow up and down.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11024,
  title  = {Four dimensional almost complex torus manifolds},
  author = {Donghoon Jang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11024},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Major revision. Added assumption on local integrability of almost complex structure where needed

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