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Symmetric products of equivariantly formal spaces

Algebraic Topology 2019-08-15 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let X be a CW complex with a continuous action of a topological group G. We show that if X is equivariantly formal for singular cohomology with coefficients in a field, then so are all symmetric products of X and in fact all its Gamma-products. In particular, symmetric products of quasi-projective M-varieties are again M-varieties. This generalizes a result by Biswas and D'Mello about symmetric products of M-curves. We also discuss several related questions.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08273,
  title  = {Symmetric products of equivariantly formal spaces},
  author = {Matthias Franz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08273},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages; minor changes