Infinitesimal index: cohomology computations (Q649091)

Let \(M\) be a finite-dimensional complex linear representation of a torus \(G\). The condition that the orbit dimension is at least \(k\) filters \(M\) by open sets \(M_{k}\). \(T^{*}M\) has a \(G\)-action and canonical action form that define a moment map whose zero set is the transverse cotangent bundle \(T_{G}^{*}M\) of \(M\). The authors show that the infinitesimal index in [the authors, ``The infinitesimal index'', Preprint (2010), \url{arXiv:1003.3525}] defines an isomorphism between the equivariant cohomology with compact supports of \(T_{G}^{*}M_{k}\) and a space of splines introduced in [the authors, Transform. Groups 15, No. 4, 751--773 (2010; Zbl 1223.58015)], where similar ideas were expressed in the language of equivariant \(K\)-theory and transversally elliptic operators. The authors plan to use their infinitesimal index to give explicit index formulas for transversally elliptic operators.