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...

(1.1) This paper concerns three aspects of the action of a compact group K on a space X . The ®rst is concrete and the others are rather abstract. (1) Equivariantly formal spaces. These have the property that their cohomology may be computed from the structure of the zero and one dimensional orbits of the action of a maximal torus in K. (2) Koszul duality. This enables one to translate facts ab...

We construct for an equivariant cohomology theory for proper equivariant CW -complexes an equivariant Chern character, provided that certain conditions about the coefficients are satisfied. These conditions are fulfilled if the coefficients of the equivariant cohomology theory possess a Mackey structure. Such a structure is present in many interesting examples.

We present a new geometric interpretation of equivariant cohomology in which one replaces a smooth, complex G-variety X by its associated arc space J∞X, with its induced G-action. This not only allows us to obtain geometric classes in equivariant cohomology of arbitrarily high degree, but also provides more flexibility for equivariantly deforming classes and geometrically interpreting multiplic...

Introduced by Borel in the late 1950’s, equivariant cohomology encodes information about how the topology of a space interacts with a group action. Quite some time passed before algebraic geometers picked up on these ideas, but in the last twenty years, equivariant techniques have found many applications in enumerative geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and the study of toric varieties and homogen...

For GKM manifolds the equivariant cohomology ring of the manifold is isomorphic to the cohomology ring of its GKM graph. In this paper we explore the implications of this fact for equivariant fibrations for which the total space and the base space are both GKM and derive a graph theoretical version of the Serre-Leray theorem. We also make some applications of this result to the equivariant coho...

We introduce a Bredon motivic cohomology theory for smooth schemes defined over a field and equipped with an action by a finite group. These cohomology groups are defined for finite dimensional representations as the hypercohomology of complexes of equivariant correspondences in the equivariant Nisnevich topology. We generalize the theory of presheaves with transfers to the equivariant setting ...

We find presentations by generators and relations for the equivariant quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian. For these presentations, we also find determinantal formulae for the equivariant quantum Schubert classes. To prove this, we use the theory of factorial Schur functions and a characterization of the equivariant quantum cohomology ring.

We show that for a discrete group G, the equivariant cohomology of a G-space X with G-local coefficients M is isomorphic to the Bredon-Iliman cohomology of X with equivariant local coefficients M.

The objective of this paper is to clarify the relationships between quantum Dmodule and equivariant Floer theory. Equivariant Floer theory was introduced by Givental in his paper “Homological Geometry”. He conjectured that the quantum D-module of a symplectic manifold is isomorphic to the equivariant Floer cohomology for the universal cover of the free loop space. First, motivated by the work o...