Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Mathematical Research Letters

DOI

10.4310/MRL.2015.v22.n2.a9

ISSN

1073-2780

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.

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