scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286459

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Authors Cherng-Yih Yu, Kuen-Huei Lin

Publication date 9 February 2000

zbMATH Keywords

first Stiefel Whitney classorientabilitypositive scalar curvatureprojective bundles of real vector bundlesreal \(K\)-theoryspin structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Miscellaneous applications of (K)-theory (19M05) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25)

Review text

In this paper, the authors consider the projective bundles of real vector bundles. Their main theorem asserts that such a bundle is orientable if and only if the rank of the original bundle is even and the first Stiefel Whitney class of the original bundle equals the first Stiefel-Whitney class of the base. The main theorem also covers the analogous statement for spin structures. The authors apply this theorem to many bundles over real projective space. The introduction includes a nice review of the relation between manifolds admitting positive scalar curvature and real K-theory. The main theorem is important, because it may be applied to the study of manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

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