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Equivariant Cohomology of S1-Actions on 4-Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leonor Godinho
Leonor Godinho*
Affiliation:
Centro de Análise Matemática, Geometria et Sistemas Dinâmicos, Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal e-mail: lgodin@math.ist.utl.pt
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Abstract

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Let $M$ be a symplectic 4-dimensional manifold equipped with a Hamiltonian circle action with isolated fixed points. We describe a method for computing its integral equivariant cohomology in terms of fixed point data. We give some examples of these computations.

Keywords

53D2055N9157S15
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2007 , pp. 365 - 376
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2007

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