The A-genus of S^1-manifolds with finite second homotopy group

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2010.01.011MaRDI QIDQ960998zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Amann, Anand Dessai

Publication date 29 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0840

zbMATH Keywords

complex Grassmannianpositive quaternionic Kähler manifoldsquaternionic Kähler manifoldsquaternionic projective spacesecond homotopy group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10) Elliptic genera (58J26)

Abstract: We construct examples of $S^1$-manifolds with finite second homotopy group and non-vanishing $hatA$-genus. This is related to the classification of positive quaternionic Kaehler manifolds.

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