G_s,3(C) is prime if n is odd

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00118-1MaRDI QIDQ1295263zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Ferdinands

Publication date 6 September 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00118-1

zbMATH Keywords

compact fibering complex Grassmannian manifold connectedwise prime rational homotopy transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R05)

Review text

A finite CW complex \(X\) is said to be prime if for every Hurewicz fibration \(F \to E \to B\) with \(E\) homotopically equivalent to \(X\), and \(B\) and \(F\) homotopically equivalent to finite CW complexes, either \(B\) or \(F\) is contractible. In the paper under review there is demonstrated that the complex Grassmannian \(C_{n,3}\) is prime if \(n\) is odd. For \(n \leq 17\) this result was obtained earlier, so the author has to deal with the case \(n \geq 19\). The proof is based on a detailed study of generators and polynomial relations of the rings \(H^*(B;Q)\) and \(H^*(B,Z_p)\), for a Hurewicz fibration \(F \to E \to B\), where \(E\) is homotopically equivalent to \(C_{n,3}\). It is proved that among the generators of \(H^*(B,Q)\) exactly one has dimension divisible by 4, and the Euler characteristic of \(F\) is odd. Then the Steenrod operations for the primes 2 and 3 are used to get contradiction with the fact that a nontrivial compact fibering exists. Note also that the introduction to this paper contains corrections of the paper [\textit{J. Ferdinands}, Topology Appl. 40, No. 3, 221-231 (1991; Zbl 0746.57010)].

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