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Be?linson-Bernstein localization?
The concept of -CW complex is to that of CW-complexes as topological G-spaces are to topological spaces: for a compact topological group, the notion of -CW-complex is much like that of CW-complex, only that where in the latter case one builds a topological space from gluing of disks (“cells”) for a -CW-complex one glues products (product topological spaces) of disks with -orbits (coset spaces) for compact subgroups .
These are cofibrant objects in the -fine model structure on topological G-spaces.
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For finite equivariance groups , a -CW-complex structure may be identified with
a plain CW-complex-structure
on which the -action is cellular (sends -cells onto -cells, respecting their boundaries)
which on cells that are sent to themselves actually restricts to the identity (i.e. cells that are fixed under the action are actually fixed point-wise).
This special case was the original definition on Bredon 1967b, I.1.
The equivariant triangulation theorem says that if a compact Lie group acts on a compact smooth manifold , then the manifold admits an equivariant triangulation. In particular:
For a compact Lie group, every closed smooth G-manifold admits the structure of a G-CW complex.
Moreover, if the manifold does have a boundary, then its G-CW complex may be chosen such that the boundary is a G-subcomplex. (Illman 83, last sentence above theorem 7.1)
In particular:
(G-representation spheres are G-CW-complexes)
For a compact Lie group (e.g. a finite group) and a finite-dimensional orthogonal -linear representation, the representation sphere admits the structure of a G-CW-complex.
For a finite group (at least), the product of two -CW-complexes in compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces is itself a -CW-complex.
Since for finite , a -CW complex is the same as a plain CW-complex equipped with a cellular action by (Rem. ) it is clear that for this structure to be preserved by the product operation it is sufficient that the products of underlying cells constitute a CW-complex, hence that products preserve CW-complexes in compactly generated Hausdorff spaces. This is this case by this Prop..
See at equivariant cellular approximation theorem.
See at G-CW approximation.
See at equivariant Whitehead theorem.
See at Elmendorf's theorem.
The notion of G-CW complexes is, for the case of finite groups , due to
announced in
In the broader generality of general topological groups and specifically of compact Lie groups, the notion of G-CW-complexes and their equivariant Whitehead theorem is due to:
Takao Matumoto, On -CW complexes and a theorem of JHC Whitehead, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo Sect. IA 18 (1971) 363-374 [irdb:00926/0001786419, PDF]
Takao Matumoto, Equivariant K-theory and Fredholm operators, J. Fac. Sci. Tokyo 18 (1971/72), 109-112 (pdf, pdf)
and, independently, due to:
Sören Illman, Chapter I of: Equivariant algebraic topology, Princeton University 1972 (pdf)
Sören Illman, Section 2 of: Equivariant singular homology and cohomology for actions of compact lie groups (doi:10.1007/BFb0070055) In: H. T. Ku, L. N. Mann, J. L. Sicks, J. C. Su (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 298. Springer 1972 (doi:10.1007/BFb0070029)
Sören Illman, Section 2 of: Equivariant algebraic topology, Annales de l’Institut Fourier, Tome 23 (1973) no. 2, pp. 87-91 (doi:10.5802/aif.458)
(Which, in hindsight and with Elmendorf's theorem, gives a deeper justification for the parametrization over the orbit category already proposed in Bredon 67a, Bredon 67b.)
Proof that -ANRs have the equivariant homotopy type of G-CW-complexes (for a compact Lie group):
Textbook accounts:
Tammo tom Dieck, Sections I.1, I.2 of: Transformation Groups, de Gruyter 1987 (doi:10.1515/9783110858372)
Wolfgang Lück, Sections I.1, I.2 of: Transformation Groups and Algebraic K-Theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1408 (Springer 1989) (doi:10.1007/BFb0083681)
Peter May et al., Section I.3 of: Equivariant homotopy and cohomology theory, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, vol. 91, Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC, 1996 (ISBN: 978-0-8218-0319-6 pdf, pdf)
Lecture notes:
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