Cohomology of biquotients
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Cohomology of biquotients
zbMATH Open document ID: 0769.53029
DOI: 10.1007/BF02567078
author: J.-H. Eschenburg
published in: Manuscripta Mathematica
publication date: 1993-01-16T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/155717
review text: A biquotient is the double coset space \(M = U\setminus L/K\), where \(L\) is a compact Lie group, \(U\) and \(K\) its Lie subgroups such that \(U\) acts freely on \(L/K\). Another model is the quotient space \(G/U\), where \(G\) is a compact Lie group and \(U\) a Lie subgroup of \(G\times G\), acting on \(G\) by bilateral translations; one supposes that this action is free, i.e. that the components \(u_ 1,u_ 2\) are not conjugate in \(G\) for any \((u_ 1,u_ 2) \in U\). The author constructs a spectral sequence permitting to calculate the cohomology of a biquotient \(G/U\) over \(\mathbb{Z}\) or a field under the assumption that the cohomology algebra of \(G\) is an exterior algebra generated by odd elements. An explicit calculation is made for some biquotients which carry a metric of positive curvature.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57T15
zbMATH DE Number: 91456
zbMATH Keywords: bilateral translations
zbMATH Keywords: spectral sequence
zbMATH Keywords: cohomology algebra
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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