Note on the existence of almost complex structures on compact manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF00129911MaRDI QIDQ579636zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Martin Markl

Publication date 1986

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00129911

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structuresmultiplicative genusquaternionic flag manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

The author defines a multiplicative genus for a compact orientable manifold and studies the existence of almost complex structures. He proves that the quaternionic flag manifold does not admit an almost complex structure.

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