Overview
- A long-awaited detailed account of an ordinary equivariant (co)homology theory for compact Lie Group actions that is fully stable and has Poincaré Duality for all G-manifolds
- Extends all the commonly used ordinary equivariant theories, including Borel (co)homology, Bredon-Illman (co)homology, and RO(G)-graded ordinary (co)homology
- Includes numerous motivating examples and calculations
- Includes guides to reading on several levels, from a first reading avoiding technicalities to more in-depth readings
- The first published results on the theory for actions by general compact Lie groups
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2178)
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Filling a gap in the literature, this book takes the reader to the frontiers of equivariant topology, the study of objects with specified symmetries. The discussion is motivated by reference to a list of instructive “toy” examples and calculations in what is a relatively unexplored field. The authors also provide a reading path for the first-time reader less interested in working through sophisticated machinery but still desiring a rigorous understanding of the main concepts. The subject’s classical counterparts, ordinary homology and cohomology, dating back to the work of Henri Poincaré in topology, are calculational and theoretical tools which are important in many parts of mathematics and theoretical physics, particularly in the study of manifolds. Similarly powerful tools have been lacking, however, in the context of equivariant topology. Aimed at advanced graduate students and researchers in algebraic topology and related fields, the book assumes knowledge of basic algebraic topology and group actions.
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Book Title: Equivariant Ordinary Homology and Cohomology
Authors: Steven R. Costenoble, Stefan Waner
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50448-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50447-6Published: 03 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50448-3Published: 02 January 2017
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Algebraic Topology, Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology), Category Theory, Homological Algebra, Topological Groups, Lie Groups