Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

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 Prof. Mikiya Masuda
Affiliation : Osaka City University, Japan.

Subject Area

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Mathematics

 

Venue

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Department of Mathematics, Lecture Hall I

 

Time

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4.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m.

 

Date  

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June7, 2012 (Thursday)

Title

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"An introduction to GKM graphs"
Abstract

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The notion of a GKM graph was introduced by Guillemin-Zara [1], motivated by a result of Goresky-Kottwitz-MacPherson [2]. A GKM graph is a regular graph with directions assigned to edges satisfying certain compatibility condition. The 1-skeleton of a simple poly -tope provides an example of a GKM graph. One can associate a GKM graph $\mathcal{G}_M$ to a closed manifold $M$ with an action of a compact torus satisfying certain conditions (those manifolds are often called GKM manifolds). Many important manifolds such as toric manifolds and flag manifolds are GKM manifolds. The GKM graph $\mathcal{G}_M$ contains a lot of geometrical information on $M$, e.g. the (equivariant) cohomology of $M$ can be recovered by $\mathcal{G}_M$. I will present an overview of some facts on GKM graphs.