Cellularization for exceptional spherical space forms and the flag manifold of SL₃ (R)

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2022.02.001MaRDI QIDQ2674683zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rocco Chirivì, Arthur Garnier, M. Spreafico

Publication date 14 September 2022

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14417

cellularity flag manifold polytope quaternions spherical space form Weyl group

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Cellularity in topological manifolds (57N60) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We construct an explicit equivariant cellular decomposition of the

(4 n - 1)

-sphere with respect to binary polyhedral groups, and describe the associated cellular homology chain complex. As a corollary of the binary octahedral case, we deduce an

m a t h f r a k S_{3}

-equivariant decomposition of the flag manifold of

S L_{3} (m a t h b b R)

.

Review text

\textit{J. W. Milnor} [Am. J. Math. 79, 623--630 (1957; Zbl 0078.16304)] classified the finite groups that act freely on \(S^3\). For many of these actions equivariant cell decompositions are know. The authors provide such a decomposition in the remaining cases, for the free action of the octahedral group \(\mathcal O\) and the binary icosahedral group \(\mathcal I\). Using curved joins these decompositions extend to higher dimensions. The authors' method also provides a decomposition of the action of the tetrahedral group \(\mathcal T\). The main result is: Theorem. Every sphere \(S^{4n-1}\), endowed with the natural free action of \(\mathcal O\) (resp., of \(\mathcal I\) or \(\mathcal T\)), admits an explicit equivariant cell decomposition. As a consequence, the associated cellular homology chain complex is explicitly given in terms of matrices with entries in the group algebras \(\mathbb Z[\mathcal O]\), \(\mathbb Z[\mathcal I]\), and \(\mathbb Z[\mathcal T]\), respectively.

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