Extendibility and stable extendibility of vector bundles over lens spaces mod 3 (Q2493354)

The authors are concerned with the extension problem for \(F\)-vector bundles over mod 3 standard lens spaces \(L^n(3)\) where \(F=\mathbb{R}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\). Given a pair of spaces \((X,A)\) with \(A \subset X\) and an \(F\)-vector bundle \(\zeta\) over \(A\), \(\zeta\) is said to be (stably) extendible to \(X\) if there exists an \(F\)-vector bundle \(\xi\) over \(X\) such that \(\xi| A\) is isomorphic to \(\zeta\) as (stable) \(F\)-vector bundles. The present paper consists of five theorems and one corollary. First it is proved that the tangent bundle \(\tau(L^n(3))\) of \(L^n(3)\) is stably extendible to \(L^m(3)\) for \(m \geq n\) if and only if \(0 \leq n \leq 3\). From this it follows that \(\tau(L^2(3))\) is stably extendible to \(L^3(3)\), but is not extendible to \(L^3(3)\). Furthermore after several lemmas the authors prove that the \(t\)-fold power of \(\tau(L^n(3))\) and its complexification are extendible to \(L^m(3)\) for \(m \geq n\) if \(t \geq 2\), and also give a necessary and sufficient condition on the extendibility of the square \(\nu^2\) of the normal bundle \(\nu\) associated to an immersion of \(L^n(3)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{4n+3}\). To be exact, this condition says that \(\nu^2\) is (stably) extendible to \(L^m(3)\) for \(m \geq n\) if and only if \(0 \leq n \leq 13\) or \(n=15\). The proofs use results of the first author, \textit{H. Maki} and \textit{T. Yoshida}'s earlier works [Hiroshima Math. J. 5, 487--497 (1975; Zbl 0314.55028); ibid. 29, 631--638 (1999; Zbl 0946.55010)] together with the lemmas mentioned above.