Stably extendible vector bundles over the real projective spaces and the lens spaces (Q1970896)
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Stably extendible vector bundles over the real projective spaces and the lens spaces (English)
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7 June 2000
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The authors have studied extendible vector bundles over lens spaces and real projective spaces in earlier papers [ibid. 5, 487-497 (1975; Zbl 0314.55028); Mem. Fac. Sci., Kochi Univ., Ser. A 1, 23-33 (1980; Zbl 0437.55008)]. In this paper they investigate the stable extendibility of vector bundles over these spaces. The main results are summarized as follows: (1) A \(k\)-dimensional complex vector bundle \(E\to \mathbb{R} P^n\) which is stably extendible to \(\mathbb{R} P^m\) for any \(m>n\) is stably equivalent to a sum of \(k\) complex line bundles. (2) A \(k\)-dimensional vector bundle \(E\to L^n(3)\) which is stably extendible to \(L^m(3)\) for any \(m>n\) is stably equivalent to a sum of \([k/2]\) 2-plane bundles. The proofs of these theorems use the stable versions of theorems in the papers above. The authors also discuss the stable extendibility of the tangent bundles of \(\mathbb{R} P^n\) and \(L^n(p)\) with \(p\) an odd prime. In particular, the final section deals with an interesting case. It is shown there that if \(n>12\), the complexification of the tangent bundle \(L^n(4)\) is not stably extendible to \(L^{2n+2}(4)\).
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\(K\)-theory
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real projective space
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lens space
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vector bundle
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stably extendible
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