Integral Kirwan Surjectivity

Abstract

We give a refinement of Kirwan surjectivity for Hamiltonian G-actions. Namely, given a regular value of the moment map, we show that the Kirwan map becomes surjective (and, in fact, additively split) after inverting the orders of the stabilizer groups. In particular, in the case of a free quotient, the Kirwan map is surjective integrally. The novel idea is to first prove Kirwan surjectivity in Morava K-theories and then use this to deduce surjectivity in cohomology.

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