On dimensions supporting a rational projective plane

DOI10.1142/S1793525319500237MaRDI QIDQ5242900zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lee Kennard, Zhixu Su

Publication date 7 November 2019

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07892

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesHattori-Stong integrality conditionsHirzebruch signature equationrational projective planesrational surgery realization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

Abstract: A rational projective plane ($mathbb{QP}^2$) is a simply connected, smooth, closed manifold $M$ such that $H^{\ast }(M;mathbbQ)congmathbbQ[alpha]/langlealph{a}^{3}angle$. An open problem is to classify the dimensions at which such a manifold exists. The Barge-Sullivan rational surgery realization theorem provides necessary and sufficient conditions that include the Hattori-Stong integrality conditions on the Pontryagin numbers. In this article, we simplify these conditions and combine them with the signature equation to give a single quadratic residue equation that determines whether a given dimension supports a $mathbb{QP}^2$. We then confirm existence of a $mathbb{QP}^2$ in two new dimensions and prove several non-existence results using factorizations of numerators of divided Bernoulli numbers. We also resolve the existence question in the Spin case, and we discuss existence results for the more general class of rational projective spaces.

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