Cohomological Methods in Transformation Groups (Paperback)

In the large and thriving field of compact transformation groups an important role has long been played by cohomological methods. This book aims to give a contemporary account of such methods, in particular the applications of ordinary cohomology theory and rational homotopy theory with principal emphasis on actions of tori and elementary abelian p-groups on finite-dimensional spaces. For example, spectral sequences are not used in Chapter 1, where the approach is by means of cochain complexes; and much of the basic theory of cochain complexes needed for this chapter is outlined in an appendix. For simplicity, emphasis is put on G-CW-complexes; the refinements needed to treat more general finite-dimensional (or finitistic) G-spaces are often discussed separately. Subsequent chapters give systematic treatments of the Localization Theorem, applications of rational homotopy theory, equivariant Tate cohomology and actions on Poincare duality spaces. Many shorter and more specialized topics are included also. Chapter 2 contains a summary of the main definitions and results from Sullivan's version of rational homotopy theory which are used in the book.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	February 2009
Authors:	Christopher Allday • Volker Puppe
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	484
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-10132-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Algebra > Groups & group theory Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Topology > General
LSN:	0-521-10132-8
Barcode:	9780521101325

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