Computation of generalized equivariant cohomologies of Kac--Moody flag varieties

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Abstract: In 1998, Goresky, Kottwitz, and MacPherson showed that for certain projective varieties X equipped with an algebraic action of a complex torus T, the equivariant cohomology ring H_T(X) can be described by combinatorial data obtained from its orbit decomposition. In this paper, we generalize their theorem in three different ways. First, our group G need not be a torus. Second, our space X is an equivariant stratified space, along with some additional hypotheses on the attaching maps. Third, and most important, we allow for generalized equivariant cohomology theories E_G^* instead of H_T^*. For these spaces, we give a combinatorial description of E_G(X) as a subring of prod E_G(F_i), where the F_i are certain invariant subspaces of X. Our main examples are the flag varieties G/P of Kac-Moody groups G, with the action of the torus of G. In this context, the F_i are the T-fixed points and E_G^* is a T-equivariant complex oriented cohomology theory, such as H_T^*, K_T^* or MU_T^*. We detail several explicit examples.


The paper under review gives a combinatorial description of certain generalized equivariant cohomologies of stratified spaces. The main theorems of the paper apply, for example, to \(T\)-equivariant cohomology, \(K\)-theory, and complex cobordism of Kac-Moody flag varieties. The proofs of the main theorems rely on techniques from algebraic topology, although the motivating examples come from the theory of algebraic groups. The theorems generalize known results in algebraic and symplectic geometry on projective varieties equipped with an algebraic action of a complex torus \(T\), obtained by \textit{M. Goresky, R. Kottwitz} and \textit{R. MacPherson} [Invent. Math. 131, No. 1, 25--83 (1998; Zbl 0897.22009)].




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