On exotic characteristic classes for spherical fibrations

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(85)90016-1MaRDI QIDQ1070574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Artur Heil

Publication date 1985

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(85)90016-1

zbMATH Keywords

exotic characteristic classes for spherical fibrationsrelations in the mod 2 Steenrod algebrasecondary cohomology operationssphere bundlesStiefel- Whitney classesWu formula for Poincaré duality spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Secondary and higher cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S20) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10)

Review text

Similar to Thom's method of using Steenrod squares to produce Stiefel- Whitney classes for sphere bundles, the author uses secondary cohomology operations, based upon admissible relations in the mod 2 Steenrod algebra \({\mathcal A}\), to produce a lot of exotic characteristic classes for spherical fibrations. These exotic classes are primitive and vanish for sphere bundles. Some of them are identified with algebra generators of \(H^*(BSG; {\mathbb{Z}}/(2)),\) originally given by Milgram, and their behaviour under the action of \({\mathcal A}\) is computed (here BSG is the classifying space for spherical fibrations as defined by Stasheff). Finally an interesting Wu formula is proven for Poincaré duality spaces all whose Stiefel-Whitney classes vanish.

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