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Haggai Tene

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arXiv2017

Products in Equivariant Homology

We refine the intersection product in homology to an equivariant setting, which unifies several known constructions. As an application, we give a common generalisation of the Chas-Sullivan string product on a manifold and the Chataur-Menichi string product on the classifying space by defining a string product on the Borel construction of a manifold. We prove a vanishing result which enables us to define a secondary product. The secondary product is then used to construct secondary versions of the Chataur-Menichi string product, and the equivariant intersection product in the Borel equivariant homology of a manifold with an action of a compact Lie group. The latter reduces to the product in homology of the classifying space defined by Kreck, which coincides with the cup product in negative Tate cohomology if the group is finite.

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arXiv2016

A geometric description of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence for B-bordism

In this paper we give a geometric description of the general term and the differential of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence for $B$-bordism. This description is given in terms of bordism classes of maps from stratifolds. We illustrate that with a computational example. We also discuss the case of a general homology theory, where this description is given in terms of the Postnikov sections of the given theory.

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arXiv2016

Hilbert stratifolds and a Quillen type geometric description of cohomology for Hilbert manifolds

In this paper we use tools from differential topology to give a geometric description of cohomology for Hilbert manifolds. Our model is Quillen's geometric description of cobordism groups for finite dimensional smooth manifolds \cite{Q}. Quillen stresses the fact that this construction allows the definition of Gysin maps for "oriented" proper maps. For finite dimensional manifolds one has a Gysin map in singular cohomology which is based on Poincaré duality, hence it is not clear how to extend it to infinite dimensional manifolds. But perhaps one can overcome this difficulty by giving a Quillen type description of singular cohomology for Hilbert manifolds. This is what we do in this paper. Besides constructing a general Gysin map, one of our motivations was a geometric construction of equivariant cohomology, which even for a point is the cohomology of the infinite dimensional space $BG$, which has a Hilbert manifold model. Besides that, we demonstrate the use of such a geometric description of cohomology by several other applications. We give a quick description of characteristic classes of a finite dimensional vector bundle and apply it to a generalized Steenrod representation problem for Hilbert manifolds and define a notion of a degree of proper oriented Fredholm maps of index $0$.

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arXiv2014

Some geometric equivariant cohomology theories

In this paper we give a geometric construction of the Borel equivariant (co)homology for spaces with a $G$-action, where $G$ is a compact Lie group with the property that the adjoint representation is orientable. A nice feature of these constructions is that there are corresponding Poincaré dual (co)homology theories called backwards (co)homology. This gives rise to a third relative (co)homology theory which we call stratifold Tate (co)homology. These Tate groups agree with the original definition of Tate cohomology for finite groups given by Swan. All constructions in this paper are geometric and use stratifolds. One advantage of this description is that elements in these groups can be described concretely by representatives. We give some examples of that.

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arXiv2011

On the Product in Negative Tate Cohomology for Finite Groups

Our aim in this paper is to give a geometric description of the cup product in negative degrees of Tate cohomology of a finite group with integral coefficients. By duality it corresponds to a product in the integral homology of $BG$: {\[H_{n}(BG,\mathbb{Z})\otimes H_{m}(BG,\mathbb{Z})\rightarrow H_{n+m+1}(BG,\mathbb{Z})\]} for $n,m>0$. We describe this product as join of cycles, which explains the shift in dimensions. Our motivation came from the product defined by Kreck using stratifold homology. We then prove that for finite groups the cup product in negative Tate cohomology and the Kreck product coincide. The Kreck product also applies to the case where $G$ is a compact Lie group (with an additional dimension shift).

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