Publication Date

2011

Journal or Book Title

Duke Mathematical Journal

Abstract

This paper initiated an investigation on the following question: Suppose that a smooth 4 -manifold does not admit any smooth circle actions. Does there exist a constant C>0 such that the manifold supports no smooth Zp -actions of prime order for p>C ? We gave affirmative results to this question for the case of holomorphic and symplectic actions, with an interesting finding that the constant C in the holomorphic case is topological in nature, while in the symplectic case it involves also the smooth structure of the manifold.

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This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.dmj/1296662021

Pages

273-310

Volume

156

Issue

2

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