Vector bundles over iterated suspensions of stunted real projective spaces

DOI10.1007/S10474-013-0343-7MaRDI QIDQ2453796zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aniruddha C. Naolekar, Ajay Singh Thakur

Publication date 10 June 2014

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5274

zbMATH Keywords

\(W\)-trivialityStiefel-Whitney classstunted projective space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Let $X_{m,n}^k=Sigm{a}^k(mathbbRmathbb{P}^m/mathbbRmathbb{P}^n)$. In this note we completely determine the values of $k,m,n$ for which the total Stiefel-Whitney class $w(xi)=1$ for any vector bundle $xi$ over $X_{m,n}^k$.

Review text

A CW-complex \(X\) is said to be W-trivial if for every vector bundle \(\xi\) over \(X\) the total Stiefel-Whitney class is \(w(\xi)=1\). Classical result of \textit{M. Atiyah} and \textit{F. Hirzebruch} [Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 57, 223--226 (1961; Zbl 0108.35902)] show that \(9\)th suspensions are W-trivial, and \(S^k\) is \(W\)-trivial if and only if \(k \neq 1,2,4,8\). \textit{R. Tanaka} [Homology Homotopy Appl. 12, No. 1, 357--366 (2010; Zbl 1198.55009)] determines which \(\mathbb RP^n\), \(\mathbb CP^n\) and \(\mathbb HP^n\) are W-trivial. In the paper under review, the authors answer the question for suspensions of stunted projective spaces. They determine precisely for which values of \(k\), \(m\) and \(n\) the spaces \(\Sigma^k \mathbb RP^m/\mathbb RP^n\), \(\Sigma^k \mathbb CP^m/\mathbb CP^n\), and \(\Sigma^k \mathbb HP^m/\mathbb HP^n\) are W-trivial.

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