Quantum gravity and equivariant cohomology

Quantum Gravity and Equivariant Cohomology

A procedure for obtaining correlation function densities and wavefunctionals for quantum gravity from the Donaldson polynomial invariants of topological quantum field theories, is given. We illustrate how our procedure may be applied to three and four dimensional quantum gravity. Detailed expressions, derived from super-BF gauge theory, are given in the three dimensional case. A procedure for n...

Equivariant Quantum Cohomology of Homogeneous Spaces

We prove a Chevalley formula for the equivariant quantum multiplication of two Schubert classes in the homogeneous variety X = G/P . As in the case when X is a Grassmannian ([Mi1]), this formula implies an algorithm to compute the structure constants of the equivariant quantum cohomology algebra of X.

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...

Equivariant Cohomology and Resolution

The ‘Folk Theorem’ that a smooth action by a compact Lie group can be (canonically) resolved, by iterated blow up, to have unique isotropy type is proved in the context of manifolds with corners. This procedure is shown to capture the simultaneous resolution of all isotropy types in a ‘resolution tower’ which projects to a resolution, with iterated boundary fibration, of the quotient. Equivaria...