Note on immersion dimension of real Grassmannians (Q401447)

Let \(M\) be a smooth compact manifold. We denote the immersion dimension of \(M\) by \(imm(M)= \min\{d\mid M \; \text{immerses into}\; \mathbb{R}^{d}\}\). The theorem of \textit{R. L. Cohen} [Ann. Math. (2) 122, 237--328 (1985; Zbl 0592.57022)] shows that \(imm(M) \leq 2m - \alpha(m)\) where \(m=dim(M) > 1\) and \(\alpha(m)\) is the number of ones in the binary expansion of \(m\).NEWLINENEWLINEBy using obstruction theory, the authors show that, for Grassmann manifolds \(G_{3}(\mathbb{R}^{n+3})\), we have: \(imm(G_{3}(\mathbb{R}^{n+3})=6n-3\) when \(n\) is a power of \(2\).