Rational Pontryagin classes and functor calculus

DOI10.4171/JEMS/629MaRDI QIDQ738799zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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