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Group-valued equivariant localization

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We prove a localization formula for group-valued equivariant de Rham cohomology of a compact G-manifold. This formula is a non-trivial generalization of the localization formula of Berline-Vergne and Atiyah-Bott for the usual equivariant de Rham cohomology. As an application, we obtain a version of the Duistermaat-Heckman formula for Hamiltonian spaces with group-valued moment maps.

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@article{arxiv.math/9905130,
  title  = {Group-valued equivariant localization},
  author = {Anton Alekseev and Eckhard Meinrenken and Chris Woodward},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9905130},
  year   = {2007}
}

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31 pages