Conjugation spaces

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.923zbMATH Open1081.55006arXivmath/0412057OpenAlexW3036997533MaRDI QIDQ2571372FDOQ2571372

Tara S. Holm, Volker Puppe, Jean-Claude Hausmann

Publication date: 1 November 2005

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There are classical examples of spaces X with an involution tau whose mod 2-comhomology ring resembles that of their fixed point set X^tau: there is a ring isomorphism kappa: H^2*(X) --> H^*(X^tau). Such examples include complex Grassmannians, toric manifolds, polygon spaces. In this paper, we show that the ring isomorphism kappa is part of an interesting structure in equivariant cohomology called an H^*-frame. An H^*-frame, if it exists, is natural and unique. A space with involution admitting an H^*-frame is called a conjugation space. Many examples of conjugation spaces are constructed, for instance by successive adjunctions of cells homeomorphic to a disk in C^k with the complex conjugation. A compact symplectic manifold, with an anti-symplectic involution compatible with a Hamiltonian action of a torus T, is a conjugation space, provided X^T is itself a conjugation space. This includes the co-adjoint orbits of any semi-simple compact Lie group, equipped with the Chevalley involution. We also study conjugate-equivariant complex vector bundles (`real bundles' in the sense of Atiyah) over a conjugation space and show that the isomorphism kappa maps the Chern classes onto the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the fixed bundle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412057

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zbMATH Keywords

involutionfixed point set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

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