Rigidity and characteristic classes of smooth bundles with nonpositively curved fibers

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTW015zbMATH Open1352.57035arXiv1602.01373OpenAlexW3104188451WikidataQ125920622 ScholiaQ125920622MaRDI QIDQ2826652FDOQ2826652

Authors: Mauricio Bustamante, F. Thomas Farrell, Yi Jiang 

Publication date: 18 October 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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