Bundles, cohomology and truncated symmetric polynomials

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Authors Zinovy Reichstein, Alejandro Adem

Publication date 2 February 2011

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4799, https://eudml.org/doc/231286, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/vol-15/33.html

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zbMATH Keywords

bundleclassifying spacecohomologyregular sequencesymmetric polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35)

Abstract: The cohomology of the classifying space BU(n) of the unitary groups can be identified with the ring of symmetric polynomials on n variables by restricting to the cohomology of BT, where T is a maximal torus in U(n). In this paper we explore the situation where BT = (CP^{infinity})^n is replaced by a product of finite dimensional projective spaces (CP^d)^n, fitting into an associated bundle U(n) x_T (S^{2d+1})^n -> (CP^d)^n -> BU(n). We establish a purely algebraic version of this problem by exhibiting an explicit system of generators for the ideal of truncated symmetric polynomials. We use this algebraic result to give a precise descriptions of the kernel of the homomorphism in cohomology induced by the natural map (CP^d)^n -> BU(n). We also calculate the cohomology of the homotopy fiber of the natural map ES_n x_{S_n} (CP^d)^n -> BU(n).

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