Geometric cohomology frames on Hausmann–Holm–Puppe conjugation spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08638-2MaRDI QIDQ3426006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. van Hamel

Publication date 7 March 2007

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509498

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology frameconjugation spacedegree-halving isomorphism for cohomologyequivariant Thom class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Abstract: For certain manifolds with an involution the mod 2 cohomology ring of the set of fixed points is isomorphic to the cohomology ring of the manifold, up to dividing the degrees by two. Examples include complex projective spaces and Grassmannians with the standard antiholomorphic involution (with real projective spaces and Grassmannians as fixed point sets). Hausmann, Holm and Puppe have put this observation in the framework of equivariant cohomology, and come up with the concept of "conjugation spaces", where the ring homomorphisms arise naturally from the existence of what they call "cohomology frames". Much earlier, Borel and Haefliger had studied the degree-halving isomorphism between the cohomology rings of complex and real projective spaces and Grassmannians using the theory of complex and real analytic cycles and cycle maps into cohomology. The main result in the present note gives a (purely topological) connection between these two results and provides a geometric intuition between the concept of a cohomology frame. In particular, we see that if every cohomology class on a manifold X with involution is the Thom class of an equivariant topological cycle of codimension twice the codimension of its fixed points (inside the fixed point set of X), these topological cycles will give rise to a cohomology frame.

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