On the cohomology of the classifying spaces of projective unitary groups

Abstract: Let

m a t h b f B P U_{n}

be the classifying space of

P U_{n}

, the projective unitary group of order

n

, for

n > 1

. We use the Serre spectral sequence associated to a fiber sequence

m a t h b f B U_{n} i g h t a r r o w m a t h b f B P U_{n} i g h t a r r o w K (m a t h b b Z, 3)

to determine the ring structure of

H^{*} (m a t h b f B P U_{n}; m a t h b b Z)

up to degree

10

, as well as a family of distinguished elements of

H^{2 p + 2} (m a t h b f B P U_{n}; m a t h b b Z)

, for each prime divisor

p

of

n

. We also study the primitive elements of

H^{*} (m a t h b f B U_{n}; m a t h b b Z)

as a comodule over

H^{*} (K (m a t h b b Z, 2); m a t h b b Z)

, where the comodule structure is given by an action of

K (m a t h b b Z, 2) s i m e q m a t h b f B S^{1}

on

B U_{n}

corresponding to the action of taking the tensor product of a complex line bundle and an

n

dimensional complex vector bundle.

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