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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286459
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286459 |
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9 February 2000
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orientability
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projective bundles of real vector bundles
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first Stiefel Whitney class
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spin structures
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real \(K\)-theory
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positive scalar curvature
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In this paper, the authors consider the projective bundles of real vector bundles. Their main theorem asserts that such a bundle is orientable if and only if the rank of the original bundle is even and the first Stiefel Whitney class of the original bundle equals the first Stiefel-Whitney class of the base. The main theorem also covers the analogous statement for spin structures. The authors apply this theorem to many bundles over real projective space. The introduction includes a nice review of the relation between manifolds admitting positive scalar curvature and real K-theory. The main theorem is important, because it may be applied to the study of manifolds with positive scalar curvature.
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