The moment map and equivariant cohomology

The Moment Map and Equivariant Cohqmology

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Equivariant Poisson Cohomology and a Spectral Sequence Associated with a Moment Map

We introduce and study a new spectral sequence associated with a Poisson group action on a Poisson manifold and an equivariant momentum mapping. This spectral sequence is a Poisson analog of the Leray spectral sequence of a fibration. The spectral sequence converges to the Poisson cohomology of the manifold and has the E2-term equal to the tensor product of the cohomology of the Lie algebra and...

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...