Vector bundles over real algebraic varieties (Q1812811)

This paper develops some of the theory of strongly algebraic vector bundles over real algebraic varieties. A continuous vector bundle on a real algebraic variety \(X\) is isomorphic to a strongly algebraic vector if some stabilization is. Furthermore if two strongly algebraic bundles are continuously isomorphic, they are algebraically isomorphic. Hence one is reduced to studying a certain subgroup \(\tilde K_{F-\text{alg}}\) of the reduced Grothendieck group of \(F\) vector bundles, where \(F\) is the reals, complexes or the quaternions. This paper shows that this subgroup tends to be small. For example, if the complexification of \(X\) is a nonsingular complete intersection this paper shows that for \(X\) odd dimensional this subgroup is finite and for \(X\) even dimensional it is finite \(\mathbb{Z}\oplus\)finite group. In case \(X\) has no torsion in even dimensional homology, the finite groups above are \((\mathbb{Z}/2)^ k\).