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A compact manifold with infinite-dimensional co-invariant cohomology

Differential Geometry 2021-01-05 v1

Abstract

Let MM be a smooth manifold. When Γ\Gamma is a group acting on the manifold MM by diffeomorphisms one can define the Γ\Gamma-co-invariant cohomology of MM to be the cohomology of the differential complex Ωc(M)Γ=span{ωγω,  ωΩc(M),  γΓ}.\Omega_c(M)_\Gamma=\mathrm{span}\{\omega-\gamma^*\omega,\;\omega\in\Omega_c(M),\;\gamma\in\Gamma\}. For a Lie algebra G\mathcal{G} acting on the manifold MM, one defines the cohomology of G\mathcal{G}-divergence forms to be the cohomology of the complex CG(M)=span{LXω,  ωΩc(M),  XG}.\mathcal{C}_{\mathcal{G}}(M)=\mathrm{span}\{L_X\omega,\;\omega\in\Omega_c(M),\;X\in\mathcal{G}\}. In this short paper we present a situation where these two cohomologies are infinite dimensional.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00946,
  title  = {A compact manifold with infinite-dimensional co-invariant cohomology},
  author = {Mehdi Nabil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00946},
  year   = {2021}
}