Remarks on Bianchi sums and Pontrjagin classes

DOI10.1017/S1446788714000366zbMATH Open1310.53033arXiv1402.4059OpenAlexW3098883720MaRDI QIDQ2934253FDOQ2934253

Authors: Mohammed-Larbi Labbi 

Publication date: 12 December 2014

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the exterior and composition products of double forms together with the alternating operator to reformulate Pontrjagin classes and all Pontrjagin numbers in terms of the Riemannian curvature. We show that the alternating operator is obtained by a succession of applications of the first Bianchi sum and we prove some useful identities relating the previous four operations on double forms. As an application, we prove that for a $k$-conformally flat manifold of dimension $ngeq4k$, the Pontrjagin classes $P_i$ vanish for any $igeqk$. Finally, we study the equality case in an inequality of Thorpe between the Euler-Poincar'e charateristic and the $k$-th Pontrjagin number of a $4k$-dimensional Thorpe manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4059

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zbMATH Keywords

double forms\(k\)-conformally flatBianchi sumPontryagin numbers and classesThorpe manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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• On curvature and characteristic classes of a Riemann manifold
• Double forms, curvature structures and the $(p,q)$-curvatures
• On some algebraic identities and the exterior product of double forms
• PONTRJAGIN FORMS AND INVARIANT OBJECTS RELATED TO THE Q-CURVATURE
• Characteristic Classes and Weyl Tensor: Applications to General Relativity
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• On the composition and exterior products of double forms and p -pure manifolds
• On modified Einstein tensors and two smooth invariants of compact manifolds
• Poincaré-Lovelock metrics on conformally compact manifolds

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