Generalized Dirichlet to Neumann operator on invariant differential forms and equivariant cohomology

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.11.052zbMATH Open1238.58013arXiv1010.0402OpenAlexW2165132476MaRDI QIDQ409529FDOQ409529

Authors: Qusay S. A. Al-Zamil, James Montaldi 

Publication date: 13 April 2012

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a recent paper, Belishev and Sharafutdinov consider a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary $partialM$. They define a generalized Dirichlet to Neumann (DN) operator $Lambda$ on all forms on the boundary and they prove that the real additive de Rham cohomology structure of the manifold in question is completely determined by $Lambda$. This shows that the DN map $Lambda$ inscribes into the list of objects of algebraic topology. In this paper, we suppose $G$ is a torus acting by isometries on $M$. Given $X$ in the Lie algebra of $G$ and the corresponding vector field $X_M$ on $M$, one defines Witten's inhomogeneous coboundary operator $d_{X_M}=d+iot{a}_{X_M}$ on invariant forms on $M$. The main purpose is to adapt Belishev and Sharafutdinov's boundary data to invariant forms in terms of the operator $d_{X_M}$ and its adjoint $delt{a}_{X_M}$. In other words, we define an operator $Lambd{a}_{X_M}$ on invariant forms on the boundary which we call the $X_M$-DN map and using this we recover the long exact $X_M$-cohomology sequence of the topological pair $(M,partialM)$ from an isomorphism with the long exact sequence formed from our boundary data. We then show that $Lambd{a}_{X_M}$ completely determines the free part of the relative and absolute equivariant cohomology groups of $M$ when the set of zeros of the corresponding vector field $X_M$ is equal to the fixed point set $F$ for the $G$-action. In addition, we partially determine the mixed cup product (the ring structure) of $X_M$-cohomology groups from $Lambd{a}_{X_M}$. These results explain to what extent the equivariant topology of the manifold in question is determined by the $X_M$-DN map $Lambd{a}_{X_M}$. Finally, we illustrate the connection between Belishev and Sharafutdinov's boundary data on $partialF$ and ours on $partialM$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0402

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologygroup actionsequivariant topologyalgebraic topologycup product (ring structure)Dirichlet to Neumann operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91)

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