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Equivariant cobordism of Grassmann and flag manifolds

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We consider certain natural (ℤ2)n actions on real Grassmann and flag manifolds andS 1 actions on complex Grassmann manifolds with finite stationary point sets and determine completely which of them bound equivariantly.

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  1. School of Mathematics, SPIC Science Foundation, 92, G.N. Chetty Road, 600017, Madras, India

    Goutam Mukherjee

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Mukherjee, G. Equivariant cobordism of Grassmann and flag manifolds. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 105, 381–391 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02836873

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