Equivariant classification conjecture for positively curved 4-manifolds with circle actions

Let MM be a simply connected positively curved 4-manifold equipped with an isometric circle action. A linear circle action is a circle action induced by a linear action on either the sphere or complex projective plane. Equivariant classification conjecture. The action on MM is equivariantly diffeomorphic to a linear circle action on either S4\mathbb{S}^4 or CP2\mathbb{C\mkern1mu P}^2. This proposes a complete equivariant classification of such actions; the preceding discussion explains that the classification up to equivariant diffeomorphism is not yet known because the possible weighted orbit-space data in positive curvature are not fully understood.

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Karsten Grove, “Developments around positive sectional curvature”, arXiv:0902.4419 (2009).

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