Mod 2 cohomology of combinatorial Grassmannians

DOI10.1007/S00029-002-8104-4MaRDI QIDQ699673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James F. Davis, Laura Anderson

Publication date 25 September 2002

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911158

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial Grassmanniancombinatorial sphere bundleEuler classhomotopy groupMacPhersonianmatroid bundleorientationoriented matroidspherical quasifibrationStiefel-Whitney classvector bundlevector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oriented matroids in discrete geometry (52C40) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Matroid bundles, introduced by MacPherson, are combinatorial analogues of real vector bundles. This paper sets up the foundations of matroid bundles, and defines a natural transformation from isomorphism classes of real vector bundles to isomorphism classes of matroid bundles, as well as a transformation from matroid bundles to spherical quasifibrations. The poset of oriented matroids of a fixed rank classifies matroid bundles, and the above transformations give a splitting from topology to combinatorics back to topology. This shows the mod 2 cohomology of the poset of rank k oriented matroids (this poset classifies matroid bundles) contains the free polynomial ring on the first k Stiefel-Whitney classes. The homotopy groups of this poset are related to the image of the J-homomorphism from stable homotopy theory.

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