Equivariant Stiefel-Whitney classes

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(94)90058-2MaRDI QIDQ1345015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Kahn

Publication date 28 February 1995

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(94)90058-2

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant orthogonal vector bundlesequivariant Stiefel-Whitney classesschemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91)

Review text

This paper gives a number of results on equivariant Stiefel-Whitney classes for equivariant orthogonal vector bundles over schemes. If \(G\) is finite and acts trivially on the base \(X\), then \(H^i(X_{et},G;\mathbb{Z}/2)=\sum_{j+k=i}H^j(X_{et};\mathbb{Z}/2)\otimes H^k(G,\mathbb{Z}/2)\) so we may decompose the \(i\)th Stiefel-Whitney class into the sum of \(w_{j,k}\in H^j(X_{et};\mathbb{Z}/2)\otimes H^k(G,\mathbb{Z}/2)\). This paper investigates \(w_{1,1}\), calculates \(w_{j,k}\) for an illuminating example, and investigates Stiefel-Whitney classes of trace forms.

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