Bundle structure of the Green classes in \(M_n(\mathbb K)\). (Q766112)

Let \(\mathbb K\) denote either the field of complex or real numbers. In this paper the author studies the semigroup \(M_n(\mathbb K)\) of all \(n\times n\)-matrices over \(\mathbb K\) (with respect to the usual multiplication of matrices). Green's \(\mathcal L\)-, \(\mathcal R\)- and \(\mathcal D\)-classes are determined by the kernel, image and rank of transformations, respectively. The main observation of the paper is that all these classes have natural geometric structure as total spaces of certain fiber bundles which are described very explicitly. The base spaces appearing here are various Grassmann manifolds and the fiber spaces are either general linear groups or certain Stiefel manifolds.