On Sp(2) and Sp(2) Sp(1)-structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_41297_05MaRDI QIDQ1385183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Čadek, Jiří Vanžura

Publication date 22 September 1998

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5565/publmat_41297_05

zbMATH Keywords

8-plane bundle\(8\)-dimensional vector bundle\(Sp(2)\)-structure\(Sp(2)\cdot Sp(1)\)-structureCayley numbersChern classEuler classhyper-Kähler manifoldlinearly independent sectionsPontryagin classprinciple of trialityquaternion-Kähler manifoldStiefel-Whitney class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Review text

Given an oriented \(8\)-plane bundle \(\xi\) over a CW-complex, the authors associate to it a certain other vector bundle \(\zeta\). They come to the conclusion that the structure group \(SO(8)\) of \(\xi\) can be reduced (a) to \(Sp(2)\cdot Sp(1)\) if and only if \(\zeta\) contains an oriented \(3\)-plane bundle, and (b) to \(Sp(2)\) if and only if \(\zeta\) has \(3\) everywhere linearly independent sections. In their main result, for \(\xi\) an oriented \(8\)-plane bundle over a closed connected spin \(8\)-manifold, they present the condition of (b) expressed in terms of Stiefel-Whitney classes, Pontryagin classes, and the Euler class of \(\xi\).

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