Geodesic spheres as generators of the homotopy groups of O,BO

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214434706zbMath0441.55013WikidataQ115189333 ScholiaQ115189333MaRDI QIDQ1143040

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214434706

zbMATH Keywords

Bott periodicity theorem; existence of complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on stable vectorbundles over spheres; geodesic spheres as generators of the homotopy groups of O,BO

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55R25: Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology

55R35: Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching

55Q52: Homotopy groups of special spaces

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