Integral invariants and cohomology of BSpin(n)

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(94)E0019-GMaRDI QIDQ1344444zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jay A. Wood, David Benson

Publication date 25 September 1996

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(94)E0019-G

zbMATH Keywords

Bockstein cohomologyclassifying spacecompact Lie groupEuler classintegral cohomologyPontrjagin classspinor groupWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Review text

Let \(\text{Spin} (n)\) be the spinor group and \(B \text{Spin} (n)\) its classifying space. The authors describe the integral cohomology \(H^* (B \text{Spin} (n), \mathbb{Z})\) as a pullback. The precise generators for \[ H^* (B \text{Spin} (n), \mathbb{Z})/ \text{torsion} \] and the form of their relations are given, but no explicit generators and relations for \(H^* (B \text{Spin} (n), \mathbb{Z})\) itself. In the stable case the groups \(H^* (B \text{Spin}, \mathbb{Z})\) and \(H^* (B \text{Spin}, \mathbb{Z}/2)\) have been calculated by \textit{E. Thomas} [Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana, II. Ser. 7, 57-69 (1962; Zbl 0124.16401)].

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