Chiral equivariant cohomology II

Equivariant Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry Lecture Eight: Equivariant Cohomology of Grassmannians Ii

σλ = |c T λi+j−i(Q− Fl+i−λi)|1≤i,j≤k. These determinants are variations of Schur polynomials, which we will call double Schur polynomials and denote sλ(x|y), where the two sets of variables are x = (x1, . . . , xk) and y = (y1, . . . , yn). (Here k ≤ n, and the length of λ is at most k.) Setting the y variables to 0, one recovers the ordinary Schur polynomials: sλ(x|0) = sλ(x). In fact, sλ(x|y)...

J an 2 00 5 Chiral Equivariant Cohomology I

For a smooth manifold equipped with a compact Lie group action, we construct an equivariant cohomology theory which takes values in a vertex algebra, and contains the classical equivariant cohomology as a subalgebra. The main idea is to synthesize the algebraic approach to the classical equivariant cohomology theory due to H. Cartan and Guillemin-Sternberg, with the chiral de Rham algebra of Ma...

J an 2 00 5 Chiral Equivariant Cohomology I Bong

For a smooth manifold equipped with a compact Lie group action, we construct an equivariant cohomology theory which takes values in a vertex algebra, and contains the classical equivariant cohomology as a subalgebra. The main idea is to synthesize the algebraic approach to the classical equivariant cohomology theory due to H. Cartan and Guillemin-Sternberg, with the chiral de Rham algebra of Ma...

Geometric Quantization and Equivariant Cohomology Geometric Quantization and Equivariant Cohomology

Equivariant cohomology and equivariant intersection theory

This text is an introduction to equivariant cohomology, a classical tool for topological transformation groups, and to equivariant intersection theory, a much more recent topic initiated by D. Edidin and W. Graham. It is based on lectures given at Montréal is Summer 1997. Our main aim is to obtain explicit descriptions of cohomology or Chow rings of certain manifolds with group actions which ar...