research article
Conjugation spaces and equivariant Chern classes
Pitsch, Wolfgang
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Scherer, Jerome
Let eta be a Real bundle, in the sense of Atiyah, over a space X. This is a complex vector bundle together with an involution which is compatible with complex conjugation. We use the fact that BU has a canonical structure of a conjugation space, as defined by Hausmann, Holm, and Puppe, to construct equivariant Chem classes in certain equivariant cohomology groups of X with twisted integer coefficients. We show that these classes determine the (non-equivariant) Chern classes of eta, forgetting the involution on X, and the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the real bundle of fixed points.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000325592000006
Author(s)
Pitsch, Wolfgang
Scherer, Jerome
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Volume
20
Issue
1
Start page
77
End page
90
Editorial or Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Written at
EPFL
EPFL units
Available on Infoscience
December 9, 2013
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