{ "id": "0710.2302", "version": "v2", "published": "2007-10-11T17:44:45.000Z", "updated": "2007-10-16T19:52:08.000Z", "title": "Freeness of equivariant cohomology and mutants of compactified representations", "authors": [ "Matthias Franz", "Volker Puppe" ], "comment": "11 pages; more details on the smooth structure of the mutants; other, minor changes", "journal": "pp. 87-98 in: M. Harada et al. (eds.), Toric Topology (Osaka, 2006), Contemp. Math. 460, 2008", "doi": "10.1090/conm/460/09012", "categories": [ "math.AT", "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We survey generalisations of the Chang-Skjelbred Lemma for integral coefficients. Moreover, we construct examples of manifolds with actions of tori of rank > 2 whose equivariant cohomology is torsion-free, but not free. This answers a question of Allday's. The \"mutants\" we construct are obtained from compactified representations and involve Hopf bundles in a crucial way.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2007-10-16T19:52:08.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55N91", "55M35", "57S25" ], "keywords": [ "equivariant cohomology", "compactified representations", "crucial way", "survey generalisations", "hopf bundles" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0710.2302F" } } }