Smooth manifolds with prescribed rational cohomology ring

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0135-ZzbMATH Open1357.57059arXiv1403.1801OpenAlexW1601690022MaRDI QIDQ292065FDOQ292065

Authors: Jim Fowler, Zhixu Su 

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Hirzebruch signature formula provides an obstruction to the following realization question: given a rational Poincar'e duality algebra $mathcalA$, does there exist a smooth manifold $M$ such that $H^{\ast }(M;mathbbQ)=mathcalA$? This problem is especially interesting for rational truncated polynomial algebras whose corresponding integral algebra is not realizable. For example, there are number theoretic constraints on the dimension $n$ in which there exists a closed smooth manifold $M^n$ with $H^{\ast }(M^n;mathbbQ)=mathbbQ[x]/langle{x}^{3}angle$. We limit the possible existence dimension to $n=8(2^a+2^b)$. For $n=32$, such manifolds are not two-connected. We show that the next smallest possible existence dimension is $n=128$. As there exists no integral $mathbbO{P}^m$ for $m>2$, the realization of the truncated polynomial algebra $mathbbQ[x]/langle{x}^{m+1}angle,|x|=8$ is studied. Similar considerations provide examples of topological manifolds which do not have the rational homotopy type of a smooth closed manifold. The appendix presents a recursive algorithm for efficiently computing the coefficients of the L-polynomials which arise in the signature formula.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1801

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zbMATH Keywords

manifoldsurgerycharacteristic classes and numbersrational homotopy type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

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