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Main Author: Chaves, Sergio
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08526
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author Chaves, Sergio
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contents The rational Borel equivariant cohomology for actions of a compact connected Lie group is determined by restriction of the action to a maximal torus. We show that a similar reduction holds for any compact Lie group $G$ when there is a closed subgroup $K$ such that the cohomology of the classifying space $BK$ is free over the cohomology of $BG$ for field coefficients. We study the particular case when $G$ is a semi-direct product and $K$ is its maximal elementary abelian 2-subgroup for cohomology with coefficients in a field of characteristic two. This provides a different approach to investigate the syzygy order of the equivariant cohomology of a space with a torus action and a compatible involution, and we relate this description with results for 2-torus actions.
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spellingShingle The equivariant cohomology for semidirect product actions
Chaves, Sergio
Algebraic Topology
The rational Borel equivariant cohomology for actions of a compact connected Lie group is determined by restriction of the action to a maximal torus. We show that a similar reduction holds for any compact Lie group $G$ when there is a closed subgroup $K$ such that the cohomology of the classifying space $BK$ is free over the cohomology of $BG$ for field coefficients. We study the particular case when $G$ is a semi-direct product and $K$ is its maximal elementary abelian 2-subgroup for cohomology with coefficients in a field of characteristic two. This provides a different approach to investigate the syzygy order of the equivariant cohomology of a space with a torus action and a compatible involution, and we relate this description with results for 2-torus actions.
title The equivariant cohomology for semidirect product actions
topic Algebraic Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08526