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Localization for nonabelian group actions

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Suppose XX is a compact symplectic manifold acted on by a compact Lie group KK (which may be nonabelian) in a Hamiltonian fashion, with moment map μ:XLie(K)\mu: X \to {\rm Lie}(K)^* and Marsden-Weinstein reduction \xred=μ1(0)/K\xred = \mu^{-1}(0)/K. There is then a natural surjective map κ0\kappa_0 from the equivariant cohomology HK(X)H^*_K(X) of XX to the cohomology H(\xred)H^*(\xred). In this paper we prove a formula (Theorem 8.1, the residue formula) for the evaluation on the fundamental class of \xred\xred of any η0H(\xred)\eta_0 \in H^*(\xred) whose degree is the dimension of \xred\xred, provided that 00 is a regular value of the moment map μ\mu on XX. This formula is given in terms of any class ηHK(X)\eta \in H^*_K(X) for which κ0(η)=η0\kappa_0(\eta ) = \eta_0, and involves the restriction of η\eta to KK-orbits KFKF of components FXF \subset X of the fixed point set of a chosen maximal torus TKT \subset K. Since κ0\kappa_0 is

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9307001,
  title  = {Localization for nonabelian group actions},
  author = {L. C. Jeffrey and F. C. Kirwan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9307001},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

42 pages, LaTex version no. 2.09, Introduction and Section 8 have been rewritten in revised version