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Could anyone point me to a table giving the homology of all compact symmetric spaces, i.e. $G/U$ where $G$ is a compact Lie group and $U$ the fixed points of an involution of $G$? I'd be happy even with rational coefficients, although torsion information would be great. Thanks.

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  • $\begingroup$ what makes you think that this list can even be finitely generated? e.g. are you aware there being only finitely many involutions (modulo conjugation) for the sequence of groups $SO(n), n=1,2,3, \ldots$ ? $\endgroup$
    – JHM
    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:41
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, the symmetric spaces were classified by E. Cartan. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_space#Classification_result for the list. However, I haven't seen anywhere a list of their homologies. Probably it was done in the 1950s, but I couldn't find it in e.g. the Borel-Hirzebruch papers. $\endgroup$
    – Edgardo
    Feb 9, 2014 at 2:37
  • $\begingroup$ Have you checked in a book like Joe Wolf's "Spaces of Constant Curvature" $\endgroup$
    – Marty
    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:32
  • $\begingroup$ Your question asks for $G/U$ where you've declared $U$ to be the fixed point set of an involution on $G$. This is much more general than Cartan's symmetric spaces. E.g. implies nothing about the quotient being locally homogeneous nor the involution being an isometry for the Killing form. $\endgroup$
    – JHM
    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:54
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    $\begingroup$ Probably <a href="mathoverflow.net/questions/78717/… question </a> is relevant. Anyhow there is a book by Toda and Mimura (in Japanese, unfortunately) with a table of cohomology of classical homogeneous spaces. $\endgroup$
    – user43326
    Feb 9, 2014 at 7:00

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