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Symmetric Products of Equivariantly Formal Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Matthias Franz*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 email: mfranz@uwo.ca
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Let $X$ be a $\text{CW}$ complex with a continuous action of a topological group $G$. We show that if $X$ is equivariantly formal for singular cohomology with coefficients in some field $\Bbbk $, then so are all symmetric products of $X$ and in fact all its $\Gamma $-products. In particular, symmetric products of quasi-projective $\text{M}$-varieties are again $\text{M}$-varieties. This generalizes a result by Biswas and D’Mello about symmetric products of $\text{M}$-curves. We also discuss several related questions.

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