2007/12/19 by Megumi Harada, Harada, Megumi, Paul Selick +1
Mathematics · #53D20 #55N15 #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) #math.AT #math.SG #msc:53D20 #msc:55N15
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.3202
18 pages
arxiv created 2007/12/19 · openalex publication_date 2007/12/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Let G be a compact Lie group and LG its associated loop group. The main result of this manuscript is a surjectivity theorem from the equivariant K-theory of a Hamiltonian LG-space onto the integral K-theory of its Hamiltonian LG-quotient. Our result is a K-theoretic analogue of previous work in rational Borel-equivariant cohomology of Bott, Tolman, and Weitsman. Our proof techniques differ from that of Bott, Tolman, and Weitsman in that they explicitly use the Borel construction, which we do not have at our disposal in equivariant K-theory; we instead directly construct G-equivariant homotopy equivalences to obtain the necessary isomorphisms in equivariant K-theory. The main theorem should also be viewed as a first step toward a similar theorem in K-theory for quasi-Hamiltonian G-spaces and their associated quasi-Hamiltonian quotients.