Conjugation spaces and equivariant Chern classes

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Authors Wolfgang Pitsch, Jérôme Scherer

Publication date 11 July 2013

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4357

zbMATH Keywords

Stiefel-Whitney classesAtiyah-real vector bundlesconjugation spacesequivariant Chern classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Relations between equivariant and nonequivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P92)

Abstract: Let h be a Real bundle, in the sense of Atiyah, over a space X. This is a complex vector bundle together with an involution which is compatible with complex conjugation. We use the fact that BU is equipped with a structure of conjugation space, as defined by Hausmann, Holm, and Puppe, to construct equivariant Chern classes in the Z/2-equivariant cohomology of X with twisted integer coefficients. We show that these classes determine the (non-equivariant) Chern classes of h, forgetting the involution on X, and the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the real bundle of fixed points.

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