Characteristic classes for GO(2N, C)

DOI10.4310/AJM.2001.V5.N1.A11MaRDI QIDQ700495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yogish I. Holla, Nitin Nitsure

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003147

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classclassifying spaceLie groupsingular cohomology ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Abstract: The complex Lie group GO(2n,C) by definition consists of all complex matrices A of size 2n, such that A times transpose(A) is a non-zero scalar. In this paper we determine explicitly the singular cohomology ring of the classifying space BGO(2n,C) with mod 2 coefficients, in terms of generators and relations. The method consists of analysing a certain derivation on the cohomology ring of BO(2n) (which is a polynomial ring in the Stiefel-Whitney classes) via a Koszul complex, and using this to `solve' the Gysin sequence for the bundle BO(2n) over BGO(2n,C).

Review text

The notation \(\text{GO}(2N,\mathbb C)\) appearing in the title is changed to \(\text{GO}(2n)\) in the rest of the paper, except for the final remark on p. 182 mentioning \(\text{GO}(2n,\mathbb C)\); similarly the notation \(\text{GL}(n,\mathbb C)\) is changed to \(\text{GL}(n)\). The following is a quote from the paper: \`\` The complex Lie group \(\text{GO}(n)\) is by definition the closed subgroup of \(GL(n)\) consisting of all matrices \(g\) such that \(^t gg\) is a scalar matrix \(\lambda I\) for some \(\lambda\in \mathbb C^\ast\). The authors' aim is to give an explicit description of the singular cohomology ring, with coefficients in \(\mathbb Z/(2)\), of the classifying space of \(\text{GO}(2n)\).

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