On characteristic classes of compact homogeneous spaces and their applications in compact transformation groups I

DOI10.1007/BF02584633zbMATH Open0487.57014OpenAlexW2018610305MaRDI QIDQ3948331FDOQ3948331

Authors: Wu-Yi Hsiang 

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02584633

zbMATH Keywords

SU(n)Sp(n)SO(n)roots and weightscharacteristic classes of homogeneous spacesconjugacy classes for the connected component of the identity of the principal isotropy subgroupfirst three Pontrjagin classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Cites Work

• Sur la cohomologie des espaces fibrés principaux et des espaces homogènes de groupes de Lie compacts
• Invariants of Finite Groups Generated by Reflections
• Differentiable actions of compact connected classical groups. II
• Differentiable Actions of Compact Connected Classical Groups I
• Characteristic Classes and Homogeneous Spaces, I

Cited In (3)

• Transformation groups on complex Stiefel manifolds
• Parallelizability of homogeneous spaces. II
• On Actions of Regular Type on Complex Stiefel Manifolds

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