Rigidity and characteristic classes of smooth bundles with nonpositively curved fibers

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTW015MaRDI QIDQ2826652zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mauricio Bustamante, F. Thomas Farrell, Yi Jiang

Publication date 18 October 2016

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01373

zbMATH Keywords

Miller-Morita-Mumford classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We prove vanishing results for the generalized Miller-Morita-Mumford classes of some smooth bundles whose fiber is a closed manifold that supports a nonpositively curved Riemannian metric. We also find, under some extra conditions, that the vertical tangent bundle is topologically rigid.

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