Canonical bases for the equivariant cohomology and K-theory rings of symplectic toric manifolds

Abstract

Let $M$ be a symplectic toric manifold acted on by a torus $\mathbb{T}$. In this work we exhibit an explicit basis for the equivariant K-theory ring ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathbb{T}}(M)$ which is canonically associated to a generic component of the moment map. We provide a combinatorial algorithm for computing the restrictions of the elements of this basis to the fixed point set; these, in turn, determine the ring structure of ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathbb{T}}(M)$. The construction is based on the notion of local index at a fixed point, similar to that introduced by Guillemin and Kogan in [GK]. We apply the same techniques to exhibit an explicit basis for the equivariant cohomology ring $H_{\mathbb{T}}(M;\mathbb{Z})$ which is canonically associated to a generic component of the moment map. Moreover we prove that the elements of this basis coincide with some well-known sets of classes: the equivariant Poincaré duals to the closures of unstable manifolds, and also the canonical classes introduced by Goldin and Tolman in [GT], which exist whenever the moment map is index increasing.

33 pages, 6 figures