Homotopy groups of some homogeneous spaces and some remarks on their sections over spheres

DOI10.1007/BF02844768MaRDI QIDQ803581zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mohammed Abdelal, Önder, Turgut

Publication date 1990

Published in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02844768

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex substructureshomogeneous spaceshomotopy classesstable homotopy groupsunstable homotopy groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Homotopy groups of topological groups and homogeneous spaces (57T20)

Review text

The authors compute the stable homotopy groups and a few of the unstable homotopy groups of the homogeneous spaces SO(2n)/U(s), U(2n)/Sp(s) for \(s<n\) and those of SO(4n)/Sp(s) for \(s\leq n\). These groups are important for the study of almost complex and almost-quaternion substructures on the spheres. By an almost-complex s-substructure on an n-dimensional manifold M with a Riemannian metric is meant a pair (I,\(\eta\)) consisting of a 2s-dimensional subbundle \(\eta\) of the tangent bundle \(T_ M\) and a complex structure I on \(\eta\). Further the concepts of an almost complex s-substructure on M with framed complement, of a normalized almost complex s-substructure with framed complement and of a normalized almost complex s-substructure with oriented framed complement are introduced. As an application, the authors enumerate the homotopy classes of normalized almost complex (n-1) and (n-2) substructures with oriented framed complements on the spheres.

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