On trivialities of Chern classes

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Authors Aniruddha C. Naolekar, Ajay Singh Thakur

Publication date 8 January 2015

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8370

zbMATH Keywords

\(C\)-trivial\(W\)-trivialChern characteristic classStiefel-Whitney characteristic classstunted projective space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: A finite $CW$-complex $X$ is $C$-trivial if for every complex vector bundle $xi$ over $X$, the total Chern class $c(xi)=1$. In this note we completely determine when each of the following spaces are $C$-trivial: suspensions of stunted real projective spaces, suspensions of stunted complex projective spaces and suspensions of stunted quaternionic projective spaces.

Review text

Given a \(CW\)-complex, the authors call it \(C\)-trivial (alternatively, \(W\)-trivial) if the total Chern (alternatively, Stiefel-Whitney) class of any complex (alternatively, real) vector bundle over this space is trivial. In the paper under review, they explicitly describe all the cases in which suspensions of stunted real projective spaces, suspensions of stunted complex projective spaces or suspensions of stunted quaternionic projective spaces are \(C\)-trivial. Relations between \(C\)-triviality and \(W\)-triviality are also studied and used in some of the proofs.

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