On the sign ambiguity in equivariant cohomological rigidity of GKM graphs (Q2075294)

\textit{V. Guillemin} and \textit{C. Zara} defined an abstract GKM (Goresky-Kottwitz-MacPherson) graph \({\mathcal{G}}\) and its graph equivariant cohomology in [Asian J. Math. 3, No. 1, 49--76 (1999; Zbl 0971.58001)]. The graph equivariant cohomology \(H_T^\ast({\mathcal{G}})\) is a graded algebra over the integral cohomology \(H^\ast(BT)\), where \(T\) is a torus and \(BT\) is the classifying space of \(T\). In this paper the author introduces the notion of equivariant total Chern class of a GKM graph \({\mathcal{G}}\). This is an element in \(H_T^\ast({\mathcal{G}})\). Let \({\mathcal{G}}\) and \({\mathcal{G}}'\) be GKM graphs. Assume there is an isomorphism \(\varphi\colon H^\ast_T({\mathcal{G}}')\to H^\ast_T({\mathcal{G}})\) of graded \(H^\ast(BT)\)-algebras that preserves the equivariant total Chern classes. The main result of the paper states that there is a geometric isomorphism \({\mathcal{G}}\to {\mathcal{G}}'\) inducing \(\varphi\). Thus the graph equivariant cohomology and the equivariant total Chern class together completely determine a GKM graph. The paper is a sequel to [\textit{M. Franz} and \textit{H. Yamanaka}, Proc. Japan Acad., Ser. A 95, No. 10, 107--110 (2019; Zbl 1442.55006)].