Cohomology of the space of commuting \(n\)-tuples in a compact Lie group (Q2464769)

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Cohomology of the space of commuting \(n\)-tuples in a compact Lie group
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    Cohomology of the space of commuting \(n\)-tuples in a compact Lie group (English)
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    17 December 2007
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    The space \(\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^n,G)\) of pairwise commuting \(n\)-tuples of elements in a compact Lie group \(G\) forms a generally singular real algebraic variety. The author constructs a desingularization of the generic component of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^n,G)\). This desingularization is applied to derive formulas for the ordinary and equivariant cohomology of \(\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}^n,G)\).
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    cohomology of Lie groups
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    equivariant cohomology
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    moduli space
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