Fields of totally isotropic subspaces and almost complex structures

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1138036906MaRDI QIDQ760023zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Albert Crumeyrolle

Publication date 1984

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2996/kmj/1138036906

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structurecomplexified tangent bundletotally isotropic planesWhitney sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Review text

Our aim is to prove global existence of a differentiable field of totally isotropic planes over the sphere \(S_ 4\), to obtain from this result a counterexample nullifying a conjecture about some manifolds or fibre bundles. Namely if the complexified tangent bundle \(T_ C(M)\) of a 2r dimensional real \(C^{\infty}\) manifold M is a Whitney sum \(T_ C(M)=\eta \oplus \eta '\) where \(\eta\), \(\eta\) ' are r-complex subbundles, such that for any x belonging to M, \(\eta 'x={\bar \eta}x\), then M owns an almost complex structure. This paper intends to establish that this statement is erroneous: it is well known that \(S_ 4\) doesn't admit any almost complex structure.

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