On generalized Dold manifolds

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Authors Avijit Nath, Parameswaran Sankaran

Publication date 15 May 2019

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02418, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1547607627

zbMATH Keywords

cobordism classflag manifoldgeneralized Dold manifoldparallelizabilityStiefel-Whitney class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a smooth manifold with a (smooth) involution $sigma:XoX$ such that $Fix(sigma)eemptyset$. We call the space $P(m,X):=mathbb{S}^{m}imesX/!sim$ where $(v,x)sim(-v,sigma(x))$ a generalized Dold manifold. When $X$ is an almost complex manifold and the differential $Tsigma:TXoTX$ is conjugate complex linear on each fibre, we obtain a formula for the Stiefel-Whitney polynomial of $P(m,X)$ when $H^1(X;mathbb{Z}_2)=0$. We obtain results on stable parallelizability of $P(m,X)$ and a very general criterion for the (non) vanishing of the unoriented cobordism class $[P(m,X)]$ in terms of the corresponding properties for $X$. These results are applied to the case when $X$ is a complex flag manifold.

Review text

The authors define the \textit{generalized Dold manifold} $P(m,X,\sigma)$, where $m$ is a positive integer, $X$ a smooth manifold, and $\sigma:X\rightarrow X$ a smooth involution with non-empty fixed point set, as the orbit space $(S^m\times X)/\mathbb Z_2$, where the $\mathbb Z_2$-action is given by $(v,x)\mapsto(-v,\sigma(x))$ (when $X=\mathbb C\mathrm P^n$ and $\sigma$ is the complex conjugation, $P(m,X,\sigma)$ specializes to the classical Dold manifold $P(m,n)$). \par Let $J:TX\rightarrow TX$ be an almost complex structure on $X$. In the case when the involution $\sigma$ is a conjugation ($T\sigma\circ J=-J\circ T\sigma$) and $H^1(X;\mathbb Z_2)=0$, the authors compute Stiefel-Whitney classes of $P(m,X,\sigma)$. In particular, knowing the first two Stiefel-Whitney classes, they derive sufficient and necessary conditions for orientability of $P(m,X,\sigma)$ and the existence of a spin structure on $P(m,X,\sigma)$. Under the same conditions, the question of (stable) parallelizability of these manifolds, as well as the vanishing of their cobordism class in the unoriented cobordism ring, are also considered. The obtained results are then applied to complex flag manifolds $\mathbb CG(n_1,\ldots,n_r)=U(n_1+\cdots+n_r)/U(n_1)\times\cdots\times U(n_r)$, which are equipped with the involution $\sigma:\mathbb CG(n_1,\ldots,n_r)\rightarrow\mathbb CG(n_1,\ldots,n_r)$ coming from the conjugation in $\mathbb C^{n_1+\cdots+n_r}$.

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