Equivariant differential topology
Equivariant differential topology
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10.1016/0040-9383(69)90005-6
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1969-04
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A. Wasserman
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作者:
A. Wasserman
Section 2 concerns the classification of G-vector bundles. The precise statement is: The equivalence classes of k-dimensional G-vector bundles over M”“subordinate” to Pare in a natural one-to-one correspondence with the equivariant homotopy classes of maps of M into Gk (V’), the grassmannian of k-planes in V’, if t> n+ k. The existence of a classifying map is proved via a transversality argument. The equivalence of bundles induced by homotopic maps can be shown to follow from the existence and uniqueness of solution curves of vector fields. Atiyah [l] has proved a similar theorem for compact topological spaces. Section 3 develops a cobordism theory for G-manifolds. Equivariant homotopy groups are defined and it is shown that the unoriented cobordism group of G-manifolds of dimension n, subordinate to V are isomorphic to the equivariant homotopy classes of maps of the sphere in V2n+ 3 6 R into the Thorn space of the universal bundle over Gk (V2n+ 3$ R) where k+ n=(2n+ 3) dimension of V, if G is abelian or finite. There is a severe technical difficulty in establishing even a weak transversality theorem for Gmanifolds; hence, the existence of the isomorphism for arbitrary compact Lie groups is still an open question. Section 4 generalizes the results of R. Palais [14] on Morse Theory on Hilbert Manifolds to the case of G-manifolds. It is shown that “Morse functions” are dense in the set of invariant real valued functions on M if M is finite dimensional. Also it is shown that passing a critical value of a Morse function corresponds to adding on “handle-bundles” over orbits or more generally over non-degenerate critical submanifolds. Morse inequalities are then deduced for the case of critical submanifolds. The results in this section were announced in [15]. Some of the results in this section have been obtained independently by Meyer [6]. I wish to thank Professor RS Palais for his advice and encouragement and for suggesting this problem to me. I am also grateful for many helpful discussions with him. t Research for this paper was partially supported by DA31-124ARO (D) 128. 127