Circle actions on 4-manifolds I.
This work is a contribution to study residues of real characteristic classes of vector bundles on which act compact Lie groups. By using the Cech-De Rham complex, the realisation of the usual Thom isomorphism permites us to illustrate localisation techniques of some topological invariants.
We prove that the topological φ-category of a pair (M,N) of topological manifolds is infinite if the algebraic φ-category of the pair of fundamental groups (π₁(M),π₁(N)) is infinite. Some immediate consequences of this fact are also pointed out.
In this article, we present two possible extensions of the classical theory of equivariant cohomology. The first, due to P. Baum, R. MacPherson and the author, is called the “delocalized theory". We attempt to present it in very concrete form for a circle action on a smooth manifold. The second is the cyclic homology of the crossed- product algebra of the algebra of smooth functions on a manifold, by the convolution algebra of smooth functions on a Lie group, when such Lie group act on the manifold....