Toric Structures on Symplectic Bundles of Projective Spaces

Abstract

Recently, extending work by Karshon, Kessler and Pinsonnault, Borisov and McDuff showed that a given symplectic manifold $(M,\omega )$ has a finite number of distinct toric structures. Moreover, McDuff also showed a product of two projective spaces $\bC P^r\times \bC P^s$ with any given symplectic form has a unique toric structure provided that $r,s\ge 2$. In contrast, the product $\bC P^r \times \bC P^1$ can be given infinitely many distinct toric structures, though only a finite number of these are compatible with each given symplectic form $\omega$. In this paper we extend these results by considering the possible toric structures on a toric symplectic manifold $(M,\omega )$ with $\dim H^2(M)=2$. In particular, all such manifolds are $\bC P^r$ bundles over $\bC P^s$ for some $r,s$. We show that there is a unique toric structure if $r<s$, and also that if $r,s\ge 2$ then $M$ has at most finitely many distinct toric structures that are compatible with any symplectic structure on $M$. Thus, in this case the finiteness result does not depend on fixing the symplectic structure. We will also give other examples where $(M,\omega )$ has a unique toric structure, such as the case where $(M,\omega )$ is monotone.

26 pages, one figure