Isometric group actions and the cohomology of flat fiber bundles

DOI10.4171/GGD/183zbMATH Open1275.55008arXiv1105.0811OpenAlexW2963354747MaRDI QIDQ355378FDOQ355378

Authors: Markus Banagl 

Publication date: 24 July 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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