A note on a local combinatorial formula for the Euler class of a PL spherical fiber bundle

DOI10.1007/S10958-022-05776-1MaRDI QIDQ2146173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors N. Mnev

Publication date 16 June 2022

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06143

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial manifoldsEuler class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) PL-topology (57Q99) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: We present a local combinatorial formula for the Euler class of a $n$-dimen-si-onal PL spherical fiber bundle as a rational number $e_{itCH}$ associated to a chain of $n+1$ abstract subdivisions of abstract $n$-spherical PL cell complexes. The number $e_{itCH}$ is a combinatorial (or matrix) Hodge theory twisting cochain in Guy Hirsch's homology model of the bundle associated with PL combinatorics of the bundle.

Review text

Local combinatorial formulas for characteristic classes of combinatorial manifolds are not easy to find, due to the properties these manifolds do not have, as e.g. the spherical bundle associated to the tangent bundle. In this very interesting work, the author presents an aggregation local combinatorial formula \(e_{CH}(S)\) for the Euler class of PL \(S^n\)-fiber bundles, for a chain of spherical aggregations, obtained as a Hodge-theoretic matrix homology product which is a matrix formula for the twisting cochain in the bigraded model of PL spherical fiber bundle defined by a local system of aggregations. The author observes that ``this formula and the Levitt curvature should have some mutual relation in the case of combinatorial manifolds, but it is not easy to find.

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