On the cohomology ring and upper characteristic rank of Grassmannian of oriented 3-planes

DOI10.1007/S40062-019-00244-1MaRDI QIDQ2173523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Somnath Basu, Prateep Chakraborty

Publication date 16 April 2020

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00284

cup-length oriented Grassmanian of three planes upper characteristic rank

Spectral sequences and homology of fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R20) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Abstract: In this paper we study the mod

2

cohomology ring of the Grasmannian

w i d e t i l d e G_{n, 3}

of oriented

3

-planes in

m a t h b b R^{n}

. We determine the degrees of the indecomposable elements in the cohomology ring. We also obtain an almost complete description of the cohomology ring. This partial description allows us to provide lower and upper bounds on the cup length of

w i d e t i l d e G_{n, 3}

. As another application, we show that the upper characteristic rank of

w i d e t i l d e G_{n, 3}

equals the characteristic rank of

w i d e t i l d e {g a m m a}_{n, 3}

, the oriented tautological bundle over

w i d e t i l d e G_{n, 3}

.

Review text

In this paper the authors give an almost complete description of the mod \(2\) cohomology algebra \(H^*(\widetilde G_{n,3};\mathbb Z_2)\) of the Grassmann manifold \(\widetilde G_{n,3}\) of oriented \(3\)-planes in \(\mathbb R^n\). They investigate the degrees in which indecomposable classes occur (a class \(x\in H^*(\widetilde G_{n,3};\mathbb Z_2)\) is \textit{decomposable} if it can be written as a sum \(\sum_ia_ib_i\), where \(a_i,b_i\in H^*(\widetilde G_{n,3};\mathbb Z_2)\) are classes of positive degree) and detect all of them. These degrees are: \(2,3,2^t-1\) if \(n=2^t\); \(2,3,2^t-4\) if \(2^t-3\leq n\leq2^t-1\); and \(2,3,3n-2^t-1,2^t-4\) if \(2^{t-1}<n\leq2^t-4\). Moreover, it is shown that there is exactly one indecomposable class (up to addition of a decomposable one) in each of the listed degrees (in the respective cases). The obtained description of \(H^*(\widetilde G_{n,3};\mathbb Z_2)\) is applied to establish some new facts about the \(\mathbb Z_2\)-cup-length of \(\widetilde G_{n,3}\). Another application concerns the characteristic ranks of vector bundles over this manifold. A result in this context is that, for \(n\geq8\), the upper characteristic rank of \(\widetilde G_{n,3}\) (i.e., the maximum of characteristic rank of \(\xi\), where \(\xi\) varies over vector bundles over \(\widetilde G_{n,3}\)) equals the characteristic rank of the tautological bundle \(\widetilde\gamma_{n,3}\) over \(\widetilde G_{n,3}\).

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