Rational Pontryagin classes and functor calculus

DOI10.4171/JEMS/629zbMATH Open1353.57026arXiv1102.0233MaRDI QIDQ738799FDOQ738799

Authors: Rui Reis, Michael S. Weiss 

Publication date: 16 August 2016

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that in the integral cohomology of BSO(2m), the square of the Euler class is the same as the Pontryagin class in degree 4m. Given that the Pontryagin classes extend rationally to the cohomology of BSTOP(2m), it is reasonable to ask whether the same relation between the Euler class and the Pontryagin class in degree 4m is still valid in the rational cohomology of BSTOP(2m). In this paper we use smoothing theory and tools from homotopy theory to reformulate the hypothesis, and variants, in a differential topology setting and in a functor calculus setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0233

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zbMATH Keywords

functor calculusPontryagin classessmoothing theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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