Cohomology of the Yang-Mills gauge orbit space and dimensional reduction
This paper is devoted to an exposition of cohomology theories on categories of spaces where the cohomology theories satisfy the type of axiom system considered in [1, 12, 16, 17, 18]. The categories considered are Ccomp, the category of all compact Haudorff spaces and continuous functions between them, and Cloc comp, the category of all locally compact Hausdorff spaces and proper continuous functions between them. The fundamental uniqueness theorem for cohomology theories on a finite dimensional...
On définit le bicomplexe , extension naturelle du complexe engendré par un ensemble simplicial . Ceci permet de définir la notion de ruban de base un cycle de . La somme directe de l’homologie des colonnes de contient, outre l’homologie de , des groupes dans lesquels se trouvent les obstructions à l’existence de rubans. Si est un sous-ensemble simplicial, stable par subdivision, de l’ensemble des simplexes singuliers d’un espace topologique, l’existence de rubans entraîne l’invariance...
Let Fⁿ be a connected, smooth and closed n-dimensional manifold. We call Fⁿ a manifold with property when it has the following property: if is any smooth closed m-dimensional manifold with m > n and is a smooth involution whose fixed point set is Fⁿ, then m = 2n. Examples of manifolds with this property are: the real, complex and quaternionic even-dimensional projective spaces , and , and the connected sum of and any number of copies of Sⁿ × Sⁿ, where Sⁿ is the n-sphere and n is not...