The signature of a fibre bundle is multiplicative mod 4

DOI10.2140/GT.2007.11.251MaRDI QIDQ873944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Korzeniewski, Andrew Ranicki, Ian Hambleton

Publication date 21 March 2007

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502353

zbMATH Keywords

PL manifoldabsolute torsion invariantPL fibre bundlesignature of a fibre bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25)

Abstract: We express the signature modulo 4 of a closed, oriented, $4k$-dimensional $PL$ manifold as a linear combination of its Euler characteristic and the new absolute torsion invariant defined in Korzeniewski [11]. Let $FoEoB$ be a $PL$ fibre bundle, where $F$, $E$ and $B$ are closed, connected, and compatibly oriented $PL$ manifolds. We give a formula for the absolute torsion of the total space $E$ in terms of the absolute torsion of the base and fibre, and then combine these two results to prove that the signature of $E$ is congruent modulo 4 to the product of the signatures of $F$ and $B$.

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