BASIC KIRWAN INJECTIVITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Consider the Hamiltonian action of a torus on a transversely symplectic foliation that is also Riemannian. When the transverse hard Lefschetz property is satisfied, we establish a foliated version of the Kirwan injectivity theorem and use it to study Hamiltonian torus actions on transversely Kahler ̈ foliations. Among other things, we prove a foliated analogue of the Carrell–Liberman theorem. As an application, this confirms a conjecture raised by Battaglia–Zaffran on the basic Hodge numbers of symplectic toric quasifolds. Our methods also allow us to present a symplectic approach to the calculation of the basic Betti numbers of symplectic toric quasifolds.