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In ordinary life, the symmetries of an object (like a ball or a cube) help us to apprehend it. The same should happen in topology when studying spaces with symmetries, i.e. endowed with actions of topological groups. Equivariant cohomology is one tool for such a purpose.
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Hausmann, JC. (2014). Equivariant Cohomology. In: Mod Two Homology and Cohomology. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09354-3_7
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