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An elementary and direct computation of cohomology with and without a group action

Makiko Sasada

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Recently, we introduced a configuration space with interaction structure and a uniform local cohomology on it with co-authors in arXiv:2009.04699. The notion is used to understand a common structure of infinite product spaces appeared in the proof of Varadhan's non-gradient method. For this, the cohomology of the configuration space with a group action is the main target to study, but the cohomology is easily obtained from that of the configuration space without a group action by applying a well-known property on the group cohomology. In fact, the analysis of the cohomology of the configuration space without a group action is the essential part of arXiv:2009.04699. In this article, we give an elementary and direct proof to obtain the cohomology of a space with a group action from that without a group action under a certain condition including the setting of the configuration space with interaction structure. In particular, no knowledge of group cohomology is required.

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Recently, we introduced a configuration space with interaction structure and a uniform local cohomology on it with co-authors in arXiv:2009.04699. The notion is used to understand a common structure of infinite product spaces appeared in the proof of Varadhan's non-gradient method. For this, the cohomology of the configuration space with a group action is the main target to study, but the cohomology is easily obtained from that of the configuration space without a group action by applying a well-known property on the group cohomology. In fact, the analysis of the cohomology of the configuration space without a group action is the essential part of arXiv:2009.04699. In this article, we give an elementary and direct proof to obtain the cohomology of a space with a group action from that without a group action under a certain condition including the setting of the configuration space with interaction structure. In particular, no knowledge of group cohomology is required.

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Recently, we introduced a configuration space with interaction structure and a uniform local cohomology on it with co-authors in arXiv:2009.04699. The notion is used to understand a common structure of infinite product spaces appeared in the proof of Varadhan's non-gradient method. For this, the cohomology of the configuration space with a group action is the main target to study, but the cohomology is easily obtained from that of the configuration space without a group action by applying a well-known property on the group cohomology. In fact, the analysis of the cohomology of the configuration space without a group action is the essential part of arXiv:2009.04699. In this article, we give an elementary and direct proof to obtain the cohomology of a space with a group action from that without a group action under a certain condition including the setting of the configuration space with interaction structure. In particular, no knowledge of group cohomology is required.

Key concepts: Cohomology, Group cohomology, Mathematics, Equivariant cohomology, Group (periodic table), Čech cohomology, Cup product, Group action

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