Isotropy index for the connected sum and the direct product of manifolds

DOI10.5486/PMD.2017.7409zbMATH Open1413.58016arXiv1608.06707OpenAlexW2963989485MaRDI QIDQ4608348FDOQ4608348

Authors: Irina Gelbukh 

Publication date: 16 March 2018

Published in: Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A subspace or subgroup is isotropic under a bilinear map if the restriction of the map on it is trivial. We study maximal isotropic subspaces or subgroups under skew-symmetric maps, and in particular the isotropy index---the maximum dimension of an isotropic subspace or maximum rank of an isotropic subgroup. For a smooth closed orientable manifold $M$, we describe the geometric meaning of the isotropic subgroups of the first cohomology group with different coefficients under the cup product. We calculate the corresponding isotropy index, as well as the set of ranks of all maximal isotropic subgroups, for the connected sum and the direct product of manifolds. Finally, we study the relationship of the isotropy index with the first Betti number and the co-rank of the fundamental group. We also discuss applications of these results to the topology of foliations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06707

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologycup productisotropic subspace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological invariants on manifolds (58K65)

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