I am looking for some simple and concrete -- but still non-trivial and illustrative -- applications of Atiyah-Bott localization in the context of equivariant cohomology.
Do you know any good ones?
You want to read A Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula for Elliptic Complexes: II. Applications, Atiyah and Bott, Ann. of Math., Vol. 88, No. 3 (Nov., 1968), pp. 451-491