Cohomology Ring of Symplectic Quotients by Circle Actions
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Publication:4831816
DOI10.4153/CJM-2004-025-9zbMATH Open1067.53068arXivmath/0112303MaRDI QIDQ4831816
Publication date: 3 January 2005
Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In this article we are concerned with how to compute the cohomology ring of a symplectic quotient by a circle action using the information we have about the cohomology of the original manifold and some data at the fixed point set of the action. Our method is based on the Tolman-Weitsman theorem which gives a characterization of the kernel of the Kirwan map. First we compute a generating set for the kernel of the Kirwan map for the case of product of compact connected manifolds such that the cohomology ring of each of them is generated by a degree two class. We assume the fixed point set is isolated; however the circle action only needs to be ``formally Hamiltonian. By identifying the kernel, we obtain the cohomology ring of the symplectic quotient. Next we apply this result to some special cases and in particular to the case of products of two dimensional spheres. We show that the results of Kalkman and Hausmann-Knutson are special cases of our result.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112303
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