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K-theory of affine actions

James Waldron

Vol. 301 (2019), No. 2, 639–666
Abstract

For a Lie group G and a vector bundle E we study those actions of the Lie group TG on E for which the action map TG × E → E is a morphism of vector bundles, and call those affine actions. We prove that the category VectTG aff(X) of such actions over a fixed G-manifold X is equivalent to a certain slice category gX∖VectG(X). We show that there is a monadic adjunction relating VectTGaff(X) to VectG(X), and the right adjoint of this adjunction induces an isomorphism of Grothendieck groups KTGaff(X)≅KOG(X). Complexification produces analogous results involving TℂG and KG(X).

Keywords
vector bundles, equivariant K-theory, differential geometry
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 19E99
Milestones
Received: 23 October 2017
Accepted: 28 December 2018
Published: 24 October 2019
Authors
James Waldron
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom