KO-obstructions of non-abelian group action on spin manifolds

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(97)00013-8MaRDI QIDQ1371946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edgar H. jun. Brown, Tian-Jun Li

Publication date 29 November 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0166-8641(97)00013-8

zbMATH Keywords

\(KO\)-theorynon-abelian group actionpositive scalar curvaturereal Dirac operatorspin manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Obstructions to group actions ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19J35) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

Review text

If a compact Lie group \(G\) of positive dimension acts non-trivially on a closed spin manifold \(M\), then by a theorem of \textit{M. Atiyah} and \textit{F. Hirzebruch} [Essays Topol. Relat. Top., 18-28 (1970; Zbl 0193.52401)] the \(\widehat A\)-genus of \(M\) vanishes. This can be viewed as a \(K\)-theoretical obstruction for the existence of \(G\)-actions. Now, in the case that \(G\) is non-abelian, the article proves \(KO\)-theoretical obstructions for the existence of effective \(G\)-actions. There are interesting relations to the existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature.

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