Toric structures on near-symplectic 4-manifolds

dc.creatorGay, David T.
dc.creatorSymington, Margaret
dc.date2006-09-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:25:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:25:17Z
dc.descriptionA near-symplectic structure on a 4-manifold is a closed 2-form that is symplectic away from the 1-dimensional submanifold along which it vanishes and that satisfies a certain transversality condition along this vanishing locus. We investigate near-symplectic 4-manifolds equipped with singular Lagrangian torus fibrations which are locally induced by effective Hamiltonian torus actions. We show how such a structure is completely characterized by a singular integral affine structure on the base of the fibration whenever the vanishing locus is nonempty. The base equipped with this geometric structure generalizes the moment map image of a toric 4-manifold in the spirit of earlier work by the second author on almost toric symplectic 4-manifolds. We use the geometric structure on the base to investigate the problem of making given smooth torus actions on 4-manifolds symplectic or Hamiltonian with respect to near-symplectic structures and to give interesting constructions of structures which are locally given by torus actions but have nontrivial global monodromy.
dc.description43 pages, 8 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609753
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609753
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/116669
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject57R17 (Primary) 53D20, 57M60, 57M50 (Secondary)
dc.titleToric structures on near-symplectic 4-manifolds
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