Sets of degrees of maps between SU(2)-bundles over the 5-sphere

DOI10.1007/S00031-018-9490-9MaRDI QIDQ2301823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-François Lafont, C. Neofytidis

Publication date 25 February 2020

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10440

zbMATH Keywords

degreeSteenrod squaresSU(2)-bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree, winding number (55M25) Classification of mappings in algebraic topology (55S37) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: We compute the sets of degrees of maps between principal $SU(2)$-bundles over $S^5$, i.e. between any of the manifolds $SU(2)imes{S}^5$ and $SU(3)$. We show that the Steenrod squares provide the only obstruction to the existence of a mapping degree between these manifolds, and construct explicit maps realizing each integer that occurs as a mapping degree. Added Erratum. After this manuscript was accepted for publication by Transformation Groups, Xueqi Wang pointed out a mistake in our paper. At the end of this arXiv version we add an erratum, where we correct the statement and the proof of Theorem 1.1.

Review text

The authors compute the mapping degrees of continuous maps between any combination of the two \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)-bundles \(\mathrm{SU}(3)\) and \(S^5 \times \mathrm{SU}(2)\) over the \(5\)-sphere. Since both bundles have isomorphic integer cohomology rings, the usual cohomological obstructions for the existence of mapping degrees are not applicable. The authors show that the only obstruction in this case is the Steenrod square \(\mathrm{Sq}^2 \colon H^3(X; \mathbb Z_2) \to H^5(X; \mathbb Z_2)\), which is either an isomorphism or the trivial map, provided \(X\) is an \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)-bundle over the \(5\)-sphere. More concretely, if \(D(M,N)\) denotes the set of mapping degrees between two manifolds \(M\) and \(N\) and \(D(M)=D(M,M)\), then the authors show (see Theorem 1.1) \begin{itemize} \item \(D(S^3 \times S^5)=\mathbb Z\), \item \(D(S^3\times S^5, \mathrm{SU}(3))= 2 \mathbb Z\), \item \(D(\mathrm{SU}(3), S^3 \times S^5) =2 \mathbb Z\), \item \(D(\mathrm{SU}(3)) = 4 \mathbb Z\cup \{2k+1 \colon k \in \mathbb Z\}\). \end{itemize} Note that the last item corrects a mistake in [\textit{T. Püttmann}, Transform. Groups 14, No. 1, 225--247 (2009; Zbl 1169.55003)]. The proof of Theorem 1.1 makes use of the bundle structure of the respective manifolds combined with the mapping degree formula for fiber bundles, see Lemma 4.1.

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