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Equivariant homology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

David M. Austin  and
Peter J. Braam
David M. Austin
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
Peter J. Braam
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, 23–29 St. Giles, Oxford 0X1 3LB
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Abstract

This paper studies the homology of the homotopy quotient of a G-manifold. We start by formulating a complex based on differential forms to compute this homology. This leads to a topological version of integration formulas over fibred products of G-manifolds. In particular the TQFT formulas studied by Witten and Atiyah–Jeffrey now appear as a pairing of homology and cohomology classes. We compare our construction with both the double complex of Axelrod and Witten and with the distributional complex of Duflo and Vergne.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 118 , Issue 1 , July 1995 , pp. 125 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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