Complex cobordism of involutions (Q1865101)

Equivariant cobordism has proved less susceptible to homotopy theoretic investigation than non-equivariant analogues because of the lack of equivariant transversality results and the cobordism of \(G\)-manifolds is only approximated by the homotopy of suitable equivariant Thom spectra. This paper determines the algebraic structure of the homotopy theoretic complex cobordism groups \(MU_A^*\) where \(A\) is the group of order~\(2\). The answer is given as an explicit algebra over the non-equivariant cobordism ring \(MU^*\) whose algebraic structure is simple and which is well known to be realised as Lazard's universal ring for formal group laws. The proof uses localisation and completion techniques and other ideas from equivariant topology and it is in essence elementary. It is suggested in the introduction that similar ideas apply for a wide class of Lie groups. Related work [\textit{D. P. Sinha}, Am. J. Math. 123, No. 4, 577-605 (2001; Zbl 0997.55008)] also computes \(MU_A^*\) but in a less explicit form.