Isometric group actions and the cohomology of flat fiber bundles

DOI10.4171/GGD/183MaRDI QIDQ355378zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markus Banagl

Publication date 24 July 2013

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0811

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyEuler classflat bundlesaspherical manifoldscohomology of fiber bundlesdiscrete torsion-free transformation groupsisometric group actionsSerre spectral sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Spectral sequences and homology of fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R20) Fibrewise topology (55R70)

Abstract: Using methods originating in the theory of intersection spaces, specifically a de Rham type description of the real cohomology of these spaces by a complex of global differential forms, we show that the Leray-Serre spectral sequence with real coefficients of a flat fiber bundle of smooth manifolds collapses if the fiber is Riemannian and the structure group acts isometrically. The proof is largely topological and does not need a metric on the base or total space. We use this result to show further that if the fundamental group of a smooth aspherical manifold acts isometrically on a Riemannian manifold, then the equivariant real cohomology of the Riemannian manifold can be computed as a direct sum over the cohomology of the group with coefficients in the (generally twisted) cohomology modules of the manifold. Our results have consequences for the Euler class of flat sphere bundles. Several examples are discussed in detail, for instance an action of a free abelian group on a flag manifold.

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