Applications of equivariant cohomology

• Autores: Michèle Vergne
• Localización: Proceedings oh the International Congress of Mathematicians: Madrid, August 22-30,2006 : invited lectures / coord. por Marta Sanz Solé , Javier Soria de Diego , Juan Luis Varona Malumbres , Joan Verdera , Vol. 1, 2006, ISBN 978-3-03719-022-7, págs. 635-664
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We will discuss the equivariant cohomology of a manifold endowed with the action of a Lie group. Localization formulae for equivariant integrals are explained by a vanishing theorem for equivariant cohomology with generalized coefficients. We then give applications to integration of characteristic classes on symplectic quotients and to indices of transversally elliptic operators. In particular, we state a conjecture for the index of a transversally elliptic operator linked to a Hamiltonian action. In the last part, we describe algorithms for numerical computations of values of multivariate spline functions and of vector-partition functions of classical root systems.