Equivariant cohomology of K-contact manifolds
Equivariant cohomology of K-contact manifolds
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DOI:
10.1007/s00208-011-0767-8
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发表时间:
2011-02
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Oliver Goertsches;Hiraku Nozawa;Dirk Töben
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作者:
Oliver Goertsches;Hiraku Nozawa;Dirk Töben
We investigate the equivariant cohomology of the natural torus action on aK-contact manifold and its relation to the topology of the Reeb flow. Using the contact moment map, we show that the equivariant cohomology of this action is Cohen–Macaulay, the natural substitute of equivariant formality for torus actions without fixed points. As a consequence, generic components of the contact moment map are perfect Morse-Bott functions for the basic cohomology of the orbit foliationof the Reeb flow. Assuming that the closed Reeb orbits are isolated, we show that the basic cohomology ofvanishes in odd degrees, and that its dimension equals the number of closed Reeb orbits. We characterizeK-contact manifolds with minimal number of closed Reeb orbits as real cohomology spheres. We also prove a GKM-type theorem forK-contact manifolds which allows to calculate the equivariant cohomology algebra under the nonisolated GKM condition.