Milnor-Wood inequalities for manifolds locally isometric to a product of hyperbolic planes

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2008.04.014MaRDI QIDQ931812zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michelle Bucher, Tsachik Gelander

Publication date 26 June 2008

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1997

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: This note describes sharp Milnor--Wood inequalities for the Euler number of flat oriented vector bundles over closed Riemannian manifolds locally isometric to products of hyperbolic planes. One consequence is that such manifolds do not admit an affine structure, confirming Chern--Sullivan's conjecture in this case. The manifolds under consideration are of particular interest, since in contrary to many other locally symmetric spaces they do admit flat vector bundle of the corresponding dimension. When the manifold is irreducible and of higher rank, it is shown that flat oriented vector bundles are determined completely by the sign of the Euler number.

Review text

In the present note, the authors describe Milnor-Wood inequalities for the Euler number of flat oriented vector bundles over closed Riemannian manifolds locally isometric to products of hyperbolic planes. One consequence is that such manifolds do not admit an affine structure, confirming Chern-Sullivan's conjecture in this case. The manifolds under consideration are of particular interest, since, contrary to some other locally symmetric spaces, they admit interesting flat vector bundles in the corresponding dimension. When the manifold is irreducible and of higher rank, then it is shown that flat oriented vector bundles are determined completely by the sign of the Euler number.

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