Pontryagin classes of locally symmetric manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.2709MaRDI QIDQ894952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bena Tshishiku

Publication date 25 November 2015

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1115

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesdifferential geometryalgebraic topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of lattices (06B15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: In this note we compute low degree rational Pontryagin classes for every closed locally symmetric manifold of noncompact type. In particular, we answer the question: Which locally symmetric M have at least one nonzero Pontryagin class?

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