Mutants of compactified representations revisited

DOI10.1007/S40590-016-0128-4MaRDI QIDQ2398346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Franz, Santiago Lopez de Medrano, John Malik

Publication date 15 August 2017

Published in Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01115

zbMATH Keywords

compactified representationdivision algebraequivariant cohomologyequivariant homeomorphismproduct of spherestorus action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25) Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We show that the mutants of compactified representations constructed by Franz and Puppe can be written as intersections of real quadrics involving division algebras and as generalizations of polygon spaces. We also show that these manifolds are connected sums of products of spheres.

Review text

Let \(T=({\mathbb{S}}^1)^{n+1}\) be a torus, where \(n\in\{1,2,4,8\}\). A mutant \(Z\) of a compactified representation, defined in [\textit{M. Franz} and \textit{V. Puppe}, Contemp. Math. 460, 87--98 (2008; Zbl 1154.55005)], is an example of a \((3n+1)\)-dimensional compact orientable \(T\)-manifold whose equivariant cohomology \(H^\ast_T(Z;{\mathbb{R}})\) is torsion-free over \(H^\ast(BT;{\mathbb{R}})\) but not free unless \(n=1\). In this paper the authors show that the mutants are equivariantly homeomorphic to intersections of real quadrics. In particular, they show that the mutants are equivariantly homeomorphic to connected sums of products of spheres. They also consider the real version of the mutant, which is a compact orientable smooth manifold \(\bar{Z}\) of dimension \(2n\) with a smooth action of \(\{ \pm 1\}^{n+1}\), and obtain the same type of results for \(\bar{Z}\).

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