Vector fields on projective Stiefel manifolds and the Browder-Dupont invariant

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2020.107364zbMATH Open1455.57031arXiv2011.10761OpenAlexW3060713017MaRDI QIDQ2216591FDOQ2216591

Authors: Yanghyun Byun, Július Korbaš, P. Zvengrowski 

Publication date: 16 December 2020

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

Abstract: We develop strong lower bounds for the span of the projective Stiefel manifolds $X_{n,r}=O(n)/(O(n-r)imesmathbbZ/2)$, which enable very accurate (in many cases exact) estimates of the span. The technique, for the most part, involves elementary stability properties of vector bundles. However, the case $X_{n,2}$ with $n$ odd presents extra difficulties, which are partially resolved using the Browder-Dupont invariant. In the process, we observe that the symmetric lift due to Sutherland does not necessarily exist for all odd dimensional closed manifolds, and therefore the Browder-Dupont invariant, as he formulated it, is not defined in general. We will characterize those $n$'s for which the Browder-Dupont invariant is well-defined on $X_{n,2}$. Then the invariant will be used in this case to obtain the lower bounds for the span as a corollary of a stronger result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10761

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zbMATH Keywords

spanprojective Stiefel manifoldvector field problemBrowder-Dupont invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Sectioning fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55S40)

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