On stable parallelizability of flag manifolds (Q762240)

This paper solves the questions of stable parallelizability and parallelizability of \({\mathbb{F}}\)-flag manifolds, where \({\mathbb{F}}={\mathbb{R}}\), \({\mathbb{C}}\), or \({\mathbb{H}}\). It is shown that among the flag manifolds \({\mathbb{F}}G(n_ 1,...,n_ s)\) with \(s\geq 3\), only the ''classical'' flag manifolds \({\mathbb{F}}G(1,...,1)\) are stably parallelizable, and that only \({\mathbb{R}}G(1,...,1)\) are parallelizable. The case \(s=2\) is that of the Grassmann manifolds \(G_{n_ 1}({\mathbb{F}}^{n_ 1+n_ 2})\) whose stable parallelizability results are known previously.