Equivariant cohomology of real flag manifolds (Q2490922)

This paper studies equivariant cohomology of real flag manifolds. Let \(P=G/K\) be a semisimple non compact Riemannian symmetric space, where \(K=G_p\) is the stabilizer of \(p \in P\). Let \(X= \text{Ad}(K)x_0 \subset T_p(P)\) be the orbit, which is called a real flag manifold. Let \(K_0 \subset K\) be the stabilizer of a maximal flat, totally geodesic submanifold of \(P\) which contains \(p\). The author verifies that if all the simple root multiplicities of \(G/K \) are at least \(2\), then \(K_0\) is connected and the action of \(K_0\) on \(X\) is equivariantly formal in the sense of an isomorphism \(H_{K_0}^*(X) \cong H^*(X) \otimes H_ {K_0}^*(pt)\) as \(H_{K_0}^*(pt)\) modules. Several isomorphisms on \(H^*(X)\) are also obtained from points of view of representation theory.