In this paper, we calculate the coefficient ring of equivariant Thom complex cobordism for the symmetric group on three elements. We also make some remarks on general methods of calculating certain pullbacks of rings which typically occur in calculations of equivariant cobordism.
Torus orbifolds are topological generalization of symplectic toric orbifolds. We give a construction of smooth orbifolds with torus actions whose boundary is a disjoint union of torus orbifolds using toric topological method. As a result, we show tha
t any orientable locally standard torus orbifold is equivariantly cobordant to some copies of orbifold complex projective spaces. We also discuss some further equivariant cobordism results including the cases when torus orbifolds are actually torus manifolds.
We completely calculate the $RO(G)$-graded coefficients of ordinary equivariant cohomology where $G$ is the dihedral group of order $2p$ for a prime $p>2$ both with constant and Burnside ring coefficients. The authors first proved it for $p=3$ and th
en the second author generalized it to arbitrary $p$. These are the first such calculations for a non-abelian group.
This note contains a generalization to $p>2$ of the authors previous calculations of the coefficients of $(mathbb{Z}/2)^n$-equivariant ordinary cohomology with coefficients in the constant $mathbb{Z}/2$-Mackey functor. The algberaic results by S.Kriz
allow us to calculate the coefficients of the geometric fixed point spectrum $Phi^{(mathbb{Z}/p)^n}Hmathbb{Z}/p$, and more generally, the $mathbb{Z}$-graded coefficients of the localization of $Hmathbb{Z}/p_{(mathbb{Z}/p)^n}$ by inverting any chosen set of embeddings $S^0rightarrow S^{alpha_i}$ where $alpha_i$ are non-trivial irreducible representations. We also calculate the $RO(G)^+$-graded coefficients of $Hmathbb{Z}/p_{(mathbb{Z}/p)^n}$, which means the cohomology of a point indexed by an actual (not virtual) representation. (This is the non-derived part, which has a nice algebraic description.)
This thesis consists of two main parts. In the second part, we recall how a description of local coefficients that Eilenberg introduced in the 1940s leads to spectral sequences for the computation of homology and cohomology with local coefficients. W
e then show how to construct new equivariant analogues of these spectral sequences for RO(G)-graded Bredon homology and cohomology. Finally, we use these spectral sequences to complete a sample calculation, in which we use the equivariant Serre spectral sequence and the equivariant cohomology of complex projective spaces to compute the cohomology of the equivariant classifying space B_Cp O(2). However, to complete this sample computation, we need to know the cohomology of complex projective space. This calculation was done in a 1988 paper by Gaunce Lewis, but relies on a theorem whose proof as given was incorrect. We spend the first part of this thesis providing a correct proof and summarizing the results of Lewiss paper.
We construct a cocycle model for complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology that refines Grojnowskis theory when the group is connected and Devotos when the group is finite. We then construct Mathai--Quillen type cocycles for equivariant ellipt
ic Euler and Thom classes, explaining how these are related to positive energy representations of loop groups. Finally, we show that these classes give a unique equivariant refinement of Hopkins theorem of the cube construction of the ${rm MString}$-orientation of elliptic cohomology.