Hamiltonian circle actions on symplectic manifolds and the signature
Authors:
J. D. S. Jones and J. H. Rawnsley
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV47AL, UK
Abstract:
Let M be a symplectic manifold with a Hamiltonian circle action with isolated fixed points. We prove that σ (M) = b0(M) − b2(M) + b4(M) − b6(M) + … where σ (M) is the signature of M and bi(M) is the ith Betti number of M.