Flag manifolds and the Landweber-Novikov algebra

DOI10.2140/GT.1998.2.79MaRDI QIDQ1269698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. Ray, V. M. Buchstaber

Publication date 27 October 1998

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806168, https://eudml.org/doc/119677, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol2/paper5.abs.html

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Complex cobordism ((mathrm{U})- and (mathrm{SU})-cobordism) (57R77)

Abstract: We investigate geometrical interpretations of various structure maps associated with the Landweber-Novikov algebra S^* and its integral dual S_*. In particular, we study the coproduct and antipode in S_*, together with the left and right actions of S^* on S_* which underly the construction of the quantum (or Drinfeld) double D(S^*). We set our realizations in the context of double complex cobordism, utilizing certain manifolds of bounded flags which generalize complex projective space and may be canonically expressed as toric varieties. We discuss their cell structure by analogy with the classical Schubert decomposition, and detail the implications for Poincare duality with respect to double cobordism theory; these lead directly to our main results for the Landweber-Novikov algebra.

Review text

This paper provides a geometric framework within which to study the Landweber-Novikov algebra and its dual. The dual is realized as a subring of double complex cobordism, which is the cobordism theory of manifolds for which the normal bundle is the Whitney sum of two complex vector bundles. The subring is generated by a collection of toric varieties which are called bounded flag manifolds. In analogy with the classical Schubert decomposition, the cell structure of these flag manifolds is given by a collection of varieties which are nonsingular. In turn, these subvarieties give a base for the ring. Thus, one has a rather complicated collection of interesting nonsingular varieties having double complex structure. The behavior of the Landweber-Novikov algebra is expressible by formulae in these manifolds.

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