Manifold properties of planar polygon spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.09.015MaRDI QIDQ1616992zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald M. Davis

Publication date 7 November 2018

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

parallelizabilitypolygon spacesStiefel-Whitney classestangent bundle

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)

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.

Review text

Let \({ l} = \{{ l}_{1} , \ldots , { l}_{n}\} \) be an \(n\)-tuple of positive real numbers, and let \(M( l)\) (resp. \(\bar{M}( l)\)) denote the space of \(n\)-gons in the plane with successive side lengths given by \( l\), identified under oriented isometry (resp. isometry). If there is no subset \(S \subset \{1, \ldots , n\}\) such that the sum of the lengths corresponding to \(S\) is equal to the sum of those not in \(S\) the set \( l\) is called generic and \(M( l)\) and \(\bar{M}( l)\) are \((n-3)\)-manifolds. This paper obtains results on the tangent bundle of \(\bar{M}( l)\). In particular the sum of this bundle with a trivial line bundle is shown to be isomorphic to the \((n-2)\)-fold sum of the canonical line bundle over \(\bar{M}( l)\)

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