Classification of locally standard torus actions
An action of a torus T on a manifold M is locally standard if, at each point, the stabilizer is a sub-torus and the non-zero isotropy weights are a basis to its weight lattice.
The quotient M/T is then a manifold-with-corners, equipped with so called a unimodular labelling, which keeps track of the isotropy representations in M (and which is equivalent to the characteristic function if M/T is a simple convex polytope).
The twistedness of M over M/T is encoded by a degree two cohomology class on M/T with coefficients in the integral lattice tZ of the Lie algebra of T.
In this talk, we give a classification of locally standard smooth actions of T, up to equivariant diffeomorphism, in terms of triples (Q,λ,c), where Q is a manifold-with-corners, λ is a unimodular labelling, and c is a degree two cohomology class with coefficients in tZ.
This is a joint work with Yael Karshon.