Circle actions on 8-dimensional almost complex manifolds with 4 fixed points

Abstract

Consider a circle action on an 8-dimensional compact almost complex manifold with 4 fixed points. To the author's knowledge, $S^2 \times S^6$ is the only known example of such a manifold. In this paper, we prove that if the circle acts on an 8-dimensional compact almost complex manifold $M$ with 4 fixed points, all the Chern numbers and the Hirzebruch $\chi_y$-genus of $M$ agree with those of $S^2 \times S^6$. In particular, $M$ is unitary cobordant to $S^2 \times S^6$.