Stiefel Whitney Classes for Real representations of \mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{F}_q)

DOI10.1142/S0129167X22500100MaRDI QIDQ6354635arXivFDO

Authors Jyotirmoy Ganguly, Rohit Joshi

Publication date 26 November 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X22500100

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

arXiv classification

math.RT

Abstract: We compute the total Stiefel Whitney class for a real representation $pi$ of $mathrm{GL}_2(mathbb{F}_q)$, where $q$ is odd. The obstruction class of $pi$ is defined to be the Stiefel Whitney class of lowest positive degree that does not vanish. We provide an expression for the obstruction class of $pi$ in terms of its character values if $detpi=1$.

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