On the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the representations associated with Spin(15)

MaRDI QIDQ5457850zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mamoru Mimura, Tetsu Nishimoto

Publication date 9 April 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4969

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacesrepresentationsStiefel-Whitney classesSpinor group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: We determine the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the second exterior representation and the spin representation of Spin(15), which are useful to calculate the mod 2 cohomology of the classifying space of the exceptional Lie group E_8.

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