A remark on almost-quaternion substructures on the sphere

DOI10.2977/PRIMS/1195181835MaRDI QIDQ793407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hideaki Ōshima

Publication date 1984

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2977/prims/1195181835

zbMATH Keywords

almost-quaternion k-substructures on the n-sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

Review text

An almost-quaternion k-substructure on an oriented n-manifold is a reduction of the structural group of its tangent bundle from SO(n) to Sp(k)\(\times SO(n-4k)\). \textit{T. Önder} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 86, 535- 540 (1982; Zbl 0507.55016)] solved the existence problem of almost- quaternion k-substructures on the n-sphere \(S^ n\) for all n and k except for n (\(\equiv 1 mod 4)\geq 5\) and \(k=(n-1)/4\). The purpose of the paper is to show that for this exceptional case \(S^ n\) has an almost- quaternion k-substructure if and only if \(n=5\). The result follows from investigating homotopy exact sequences of certain fibrations. By another method Önder also has proved the same result [ibid. 90, 155-156 (1984)].

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