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CANONICAL EQUIVARIANT EXTENSIONS USING CLASSICAL HODGE THEORY CHRISTOPHER ALLDAY Received 2 September 2004 Lin and Sjamaar have used symplectic Hodge theory to obtain canonical equivariant ex- tensions for Hamiltonian actions on closed symplectic manifolds that have the strong Lefschetz property. Here we obtain canonical equivariant extensions much more gener- ally by means of classical Hodge theory. 1. Introduction In [4], Lin and Sjamaar show how to use symplectic Hodge theory to obtain canonical equivariant extensions of closed forms in Hamiltonian actions of compact connected Lie groups on closed symplectic manifolds which have the strong Lefschetz property. In this paper, we show how to do the same using classical Hodge theory. This has the advantage of applying far more generally. Our method makes use of Green’s operator, but, as we will show in [3], it is often possible to make explicit calculations. For nonabelian compact connected Lie groups, we use the small model, which is much simpler than the Cartan model and which has been shown to be chain homotopy equiv- alent to the Cartan model by Alekseev and Meinrenken (see [1]). In the abelian case, the two models are the same. The final section, however, considers the Cartan model. 2. Notation and terminology Throughout this paper, G will denote a compact connected Lie group with Lie algebra g; and M will be a closed, connected, orientable, smooth manifold. G will be acting on M ; and M will be given an invariant Riemannian metric. All cohomology will have real coefficients. Definition 2.1. Let i : M → MG be the inclusion of a fibre in the Borel construction bundle MG → BG. M (or the action) is said to have a cohomology extension of the fibre (CEF) if i∗ : H ∗(M ; R) −→ H ∗(M ; R) (2.1) G is surjective. Copyright © 2005 Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Math