Splitting vector bundles and A^1-fundamental groups of higher-dimensional varieties

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTS034MaRDI QIDQ5404113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aravind Asok

Publication date 21 March 2014

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1723

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb A^1\)-fiber sequences\(\mathbb A^1\)-fundamental groupsmotivic homotopy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Motivic cohomology; motivic homotopy theory (14F42) Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10) Higher symbols, Milnor (K)-theory (19D45) Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35)

Abstract: We study aspects of the A^1-homotopy classification problem in dimensions >= 3 and, to this end, we investigate the problem of computing A^1-homotopy groups of some A^1-connected smooth varieties of dimension >=. Using these computations, we construct pairs of A^1-connected smooth proper varieties all of whose A^1-homotopy groups are abstractly isomorphic, yet which are not A^1-weakly equivalent. The examples come from pairs of Zariski locally trivial projective space bundles over projective spaces and are of the smallest possible dimension. Projectivizations of vector bundles give rise to A^1-fiber sequences, and when the base of the fibration is an A^1-connected smooth variety, the associated long exact sequence of A^1-homotopy groups can be analyzed in detail. In the case of the projectivization of a rank 2 vector bundle, the structure of the A^1-fundamental group depends on the splitting behavior of the vector bundle via a certain obstruction class. For projective bundles of vector bundles of rank >=, the A^1-fundamental group is insensitive to the splitting behavior of the vector bundle, but the structure of higher A^1-homotopy groups is influenced by an appropriately defined higher obstruction class.

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