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Some Computations in Equivariant cobordism in relation to Milnor manifolds

Algebraic Topology 2013-10-24 v1

Abstract

Let N\mathcal{N}_* be the unoriented cobordism algebra, let G=(Z2)nG=(\Z_2)^n and let Z(G)Z_*(G) denote the equivariant cobordism algebra of GG-manifolds with finite stationary point sets. Let ϵ:Z(G)N\epsilon_* :Z_*(G) \to \mathcal{N}_* be the homomorphism which forgets the GG-action. We use Milnor manifolds (degree 1 hypersurfaces in RPm×RPn\R P^m\times \R P^n) to construct non-trivial elements in Z(G)Z_*(G). We prove that these elements give rise to indecomposable elements in Z(G)Z_*(G) in degrees up to 2n52^n - 5. Moreover, in most cases these elements can be arranged to be in Ker(ϵ)\mathit{Ker}(\epsilon_*).

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@article{arxiv.1310.6212,
  title  = {Some Computations in Equivariant cobordism in relation to Milnor manifolds},
  author = {Samik Basu and Goutam Mukherjee and Swagata Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6212},
  year   = {2013}
}