The mod 2 cohomology of fixed point sets of anti-symplectic involutions (Q596612)

Let \(\sigma:M\to M\) be an anti-symplectic involution with the property that \[ \sigma\circ \tau_g=\tau_{g^{-1}}\circ \sigma\tag{1} \] where \(\tau\) is a Hamiltonian action of an \(n\)-dimensional torus \(G\) on \(M\), and \(M\) is a compact symplectic manifold. Let \(X=M^\sigma\) be the fixed point set of \(\sigma\), which is called the real locus of \(M\). The motivating example of this set is a complex manifold with a complex conjugation \(\sigma\). Using the Morse theory Duistermaat gave a description of the ordinary cohomology of \(X\) in terms of the cohomology of \(M\). The authors present in this paper an equivariant analogue to Duistermaat's theorem.