Bigraded cohomology of Z/2-equivariant Grassmannians

DOI10.2140/GT.2015.19.113MaRDI QIDQ2260552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Dugger

Publication date 11 March 2015

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5067

zbMATH Keywords

classical Borel theoryEilenberg-Mclane cohomologyequivariant characteristic classesequivariant GrassmannianMackey functorrank \(k\) equivariant bundlestopological degreeweight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: This paper determines the RO(G)-graded Eilenberg-MacLane cohomology of the real, infinite, equivariant Grassmannians in the case G=Z/2. Possible connections with motivic characteristic classes for quadratic bundles are briefly discussed.

Review text

The subject of this paper are the infinite Grassmannians \(Gr_k(\mathcal U)\) regarded as spaces with a \(\mathbb Z_2\) action, where \[ \mathcal U={\mathbb R}\oplus{\mathbb R}_-\oplus{\mathbb R}\oplus{\mathbb R}_-\oplus\dots \] and \(\mathbb R\) and \(\mathbb R_-\) denote the two representations of \(\mathbb Z_2\) on the real line: the first one has the trivial action, the second one has the sign action. Here the auhor computes the \(RO(\mathbb Z_2)\) graded cohomology rings \(H^*(Gr_k(\mathcal U);(\mathbb Z_2)_m)\) where \((\mathbb Z_2)_m\) denotes the constant-coefficient Mackey functor. These cohomology rings are a notion of equivariant cohomology that is finer than the classical Borel theory. Of course these results can be interpreted as giving a calculation of all characteristic classes, with values in the theory \(H^*(-;(\mathbb Z_2)_m)\) for rank-\(k\) equivariant bundles. The present paper provides the first complete computation for any single value of \(k \geq1\).

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