Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 501-527 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Mathematical Research Letters |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- General Mathematics
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