What is ... Equivariant Cohomology?

MaRDI QIDQ3001780zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Loring W. Tu

Publication date 31 May 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4293

zbMATH Keywords

fixed point setGauss-Bonnet theoremgroup actionintegrationintegration formulae of Atiyah-Bott and Berline-Vergnelocalization formulavector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91)

Abstract: When a torus acts on a compact oriented manifold with isolated fixed points, the equivariant localization formula of Atiyah--Bott--Berline--Vergne converts the integral of an equivariantly closed form to a finite sum over the fixed points, providing a powerful tool for computing integrals on a manifold. This article seeks to give an accessible exposition of the equivariant localization formula.

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