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Bigraded Poincar\'e polynomials and the equivariant cohomology of Rep($C_2$)-complexes

Algebraic Topology 2025-03-14 v2

Abstract

We are interested in computing the Bredon cohomology with coefficients in the constant Mackey functor F2\underline{ \mathbb{F}_2} for equivariant Rep(C2)\text{Rep}(C_2) spaces, in particular for Grassmannian manifolds of the form textGrk(V)\\text{Gr}_k(V) where VV is some real representation of C2C_2. It is possible to create multiple distinct Rep(C2)\text{Rep}(C_2) constructions of (and hence multiple filtration spectral sequences for) a given Grassmannian. For sufficiently small examples one may exhaustively compute all possible outcomes of each spectral sequence and determine if there exists a unique common answer. However, the complexity of such a computation quickly balloons in time and memory requirements. We introduce a statistic on M2\mathbb{M}_2-modules valued in the polynomial ring Z[x,y]\mathbb{Z}[x,y] which makes cohomology computation of Rep(C2C_2)-complexes more tractable, and we present some new results for Grassmannians.

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@article{arxiv.2410.01117,
  title  = {Bigraded Poincar\'e polynomials and the equivariant cohomology of Rep($C_2$)-complexes},
  author = {Eric Hogle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01117},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 19 figures. Comments welcome