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Hamiltonian circle actions with almost minimal isolated fixed points

Let the circle act in a Hamiltonian fashion on a connected compact symplectic manifold $(M, ω)$ of dimension $2n$. Then the $S^1$-action has at least $n+1$ fixed points. In a previous paper, we study the case when the fixed point set consists of precisely $n+1$ isolated points. In this paper, we study the case when the fixed point set consists of exactly $n+2$ isolated points. We show that in this case $n$ must be even. We find equivalent conditions on the first Chern class of $M$ and a particular weight of the $S^1$-action. We also show that the particular weight can completely determine the integral cohomology ring and the total Chern class of $M$, and the sets of weights of the $S^1$-action at all the fixed points. We will see that all these data are isomorphic to those of known examples, $\widetilde{G}_2(\mathbb{R}^{n+2})$ with $n\geq 2$ even, equipped with standard circle actions.