Almost complex torus manifolds - a problem of Petrie type.

The Petrie conjecture asserts that if a homotopy \mathbb {CP}^n admits a non-trivial circle action, its Pontryagin class agrees with that of \mathbb {CP}^n. Petrie proved this conjecture in the case where the manifold admits a T^n-action. An almost complex torus manifold is a 2n-dimensional compact connected almost complex manifold equipped with an effective T^n-action that has fixed points. For an almost complex torus manifold, there exists a graph that encodes information about the weights at the fixed points. We prove that if a 2n-dimensional almost complex torus manifold M only shares the Euler number with the complex projective space \mathbb {CP}^n, the graph of M agrees with the graph of a linear T^n-action on \mathbb {CP}^n. Consequently, M has the same weights at the fixed points, Chern numbers, cobordism class, Hirzebruch \chi _y-genus, Todd genus, and signature as \mathbb {CP}^n, endowed with the standard linear action. Furthermore, if M is equivariantly formal, the equivariant cohomology and the Chern classes of M and \mathbb {CP}^n also agree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]