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Equivariant cohomology, syzygies and orbit structure

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In this paper, the Atiyah-Bredon sequence of equivariant cohomology modules arising from the filtration of X by orbit dimension was considered and it was shown that a front piece of this sequence is exact if and only if the H∗(BT )-module H ∗ T (X) is a certain syzygy.
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Let X be a “nice” space with an action of a torus T . We consider the Atiyah–Bredon sequence of equivariant cohomology modules arising from the filtration of X by orbit dimension. We show that a front piece of this sequence is exact if and only if the H∗(BT )-module H∗ T (X) is a certain syzygy. Moreover, we express the cohomology of that sequence as an Ext module involving a suitably defined equivariant homology of X. One consequence is that the GKM method for computing equivariant cohomology applies to a Poincare duality space if and only if the equivariant Poincare pairing is perfect.

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