On the cokernel of the Thom morphism for compact Lie groups

arXiv2306.16874MaRDI QIDQ6441968FDOQ6441968

Publication date: 29 June 2023

Abstract: We give a complete description of the potential failure of the surjectivity of the Thom morphism from complex cobordism to integral cohomology for compact Lie groups via a detailed study of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence and the action of the Steenrod algebra. We show how the failure of the surjectivity of the topological Thom morphism can be used to find examples of non-trivial elements in the kernel of the induced differential Thom morphism from differential cobordism of Hopkins and Singer to differential cohomology. These arguments are based on the particular algebraic structure and interplay of the torsion and non-torsion parts of the cohomology and cobordism rings of a given compact Lie group. We then use the geometry of special orthogonal groups to construct concrete cobordism classes in the non-trivial part of the kernel of the differential Thom morphism.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Primary cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S05) Steenrod algebra (55S10) Complex cobordism ((mathrm{U})- and (mathrm{SU})-cobordism) (57R77) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

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