TY - JOUR
T1 - Log-concavity and symplectic flows
AU - Lin, Yi
AU - Pelayo, Álvaro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 International Press of Boston, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The Duistermaat-Heckman measure of a Hamiltonian torus action on a symplectic manifold (M, ω) is the push forward of the Liouville measure on M by the momentum map of the action. In this paper we prove the logarithmic concavity of the Duistermaat-Heckman measure of a complexity two Hamiltonian torus action, for which there exists an effective commuting symplectic action of a 2-torus with symplectic orbits. Using this, we show that given a complexity two symplectic torus action satisfying the additional 2-torus action condition, if the fixed point set is non-empty, then it has to be Hamiltonian. This implies a classical result of McDuff: a symplectic S1-action on a compact connected symplectic 4-manifold is Hamiltonian if and only if it has fixed points.
AB - The Duistermaat-Heckman measure of a Hamiltonian torus action on a symplectic manifold (M, ω) is the push forward of the Liouville measure on M by the momentum map of the action. In this paper we prove the logarithmic concavity of the Duistermaat-Heckman measure of a complexity two Hamiltonian torus action, for which there exists an effective commuting symplectic action of a 2-torus with symplectic orbits. Using this, we show that given a complexity two symplectic torus action satisfying the additional 2-torus action condition, if the fixed point set is non-empty, then it has to be Hamiltonian. This implies a classical result of McDuff: a symplectic S1-action on a compact connected symplectic 4-manifold is Hamiltonian if and only if it has fixed points.
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U2 - 10.4310/MRL.2015.v22.n2.a9
DO - 10.4310/MRL.2015.v22.n2.a9
M3 - Article
SN - 1073-2780
VL - 22
SP - 501
EP - 527
JO - Mathematical Research Letters
JF - Mathematical Research Letters
IS - 2
ER -