Manifold properties of planar polygon spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.09.015zbMATH Open1407.57020arXiv1804.01801OpenAlexW2802117282WikidataQ129091337 ScholiaQ129091337MaRDI QIDQ1616992FDOQ1616992

Authors: Donald M. Davis 

Publication date: 7 November 2018

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

Abstract: We prove that the tangent bundle of a generic space of planar n-gons with specified side lengths, identified under isometry, plus a trivial line bundle is isomorphic to (n-2) times a canonical line bundle. We then discuss consequences for orientability, cobordism class, immersions, and parallelizability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01801

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zbMATH Keywords

tangent bundleStiefel-Whitney classespolygon spacesparallelizability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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