Degrees of maps between isotropic Grassmann manifolds

Publication date: 18 January 2018

Abstract: Let

w i d e t i l d e I_{2 n, k}

denote the space of

k

-dimensional, oriented isotropic subspaces of

m a t h b b R^{2 n}

, called the oriented isotropic Grassmannian. Let

f c o l o n w i d e t i l d e I_{2 n, k} i g h t a r r o w w i d e t i l d e I_{2 m, l}

be a map between two oriented isotropic Grassmannians of the same dimension, where

k, l g e q 2

. We show that either

(n, k) = (m, l)

or the degree of

f

must be zero. Let

m a t h b b R w i d e t i l d e G_{m, l}

denote the oriented real Grassmann manifold. For

k, l g e q 2

and

d i m w i d e t i l d e I_{2 n, k} = d i m m a t h b b R w i d e t i l d e G_{m, l}

, we also show that the degree of maps

g c o l o n m a t h b b R w i d e t i l d e G_{m, l} i g h t a r r o w w i d e t i l d e I_{2 n, k}

and

h c o l o n w i d e t i l d e I_{2 n, k} i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b R w i d e t i l d e G_{m, l}

must be zero.

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