Almost complex structures on spheres
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Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Topological (K)-theory (19L99)
Abstract: In this paper we review the well-known fact that the only spheres admitting an almost complex structure are S^2 and S^6. The proof described here uses characteristic classes and the Bott periodicity theorem in topological K-theory. This paper originates from the talk "Almost Complex Structures on Spheres" given by the second author at the MAM1 workshop "(Non)-existence of complex structures on S^6", held in Marburg from March 27th to March 30th, 2017. It is a review paper, and as such no result is intended to be original. We tried to produce a clear, motivated and as much as possible self-contained exposition.
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