On the embedding dimension of 2-torsion lens spaces

DOI10.4310/HHA.2009.V11.N2.A7MaRDI QIDQ846025zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jesús González, Peter Landweber, Thomas A. Shimkus

Publication date 29 January 2010

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1001, http://intlpress.com/hha/v11/n2/a7/pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Brown-Peterson theoryconnective complex \(K\)-theoryEuclidean embeddings of Lens spacesEuler classmodified Postnikov towers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Postnikov systems, (k)-invariants (55S45) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

Abstract: Using the $ku$- and $BP$-theoretic versions of Astey's cobordism obstruction for the existence of smooth Euclidean embeddings of stably almost complex manifolds, we prove that, for $e$ greater than or equal to $alpha(n)$--the number of ones in the dyadic expansion of $n$--, the ($2n+1$)-dimensional $2^e$-torsion lens space cannot be embedded in Euclidean space of dimension $4n-2alpha(n)+1$. A slightly restricted version of this fact holds for $e<alpha(n)$. We also give an inductive construction of Euclidean embeddings for $2^e$-torsion lens spaces. Some of our best embeddings are within one dimension of being optimal.

Review text

The authors prove results for the embedding (or non-embedding) of lens spaces in Euclidean spaces. A table is provided for such embeddings. Their method partly adapts for lens spaces the ideas of Gitler, Mahowald, and Milgram. Their main theorem uses the ku- and BP-theoretic versions of Astey's cobordism obstruction for the existence of smooth Euclidean embeddings of stably almost complex manifolds.

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