Quaternionic structures

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2010.09.005MaRDI QIDQ616929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Čadek, Jiří Vanžura, Michael C. Crabb

Publication date 12 January 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2409

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryalmost quaternionic manifoldsbundles of quaternionic algebrascharacteristic classesMorita equivalencevector bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Any oriented 4-dimensional real vector bundle is naturally a line bundle over a bundle of quaternion algebras. In this paper we give an account of modules over bundles of quaternion algebras, discussing Morita equivalence, characteristic classes and K-theory. The results have been used to describe obstructions for the existence of almost quaternionic structures on 8-dimensional Spinc manifolds and may be of some interest, also, in quaternionic and algebraic geometry.

Review text

In [Manuscr. Math. 127, No.~2, 167--186 (2008; Zbl 1157.55011)], the present authors gave a uniform approach to obstruction-theoretic problems on \(8\)-manifolds, namely the problem of reducing the structure group of \(8\)-vector bundles and the problem of obtaining necessary and sufficient cohomological criteria for the existence of complex and quaternionic structures in such bundles. In this paper, the authors consider real and complex vector bundles which are modules over bundles of quaternion algebras. The above mentioned paper inspired them to examine necessary and sufficient conditions for an \(8\)-dimensional real vector bundle over an \(8\)-manifold to have an almost quaternionic structure, which means that its structure group admits a reduction to \(\text{Sp}(1)\times_{\mathbb Z_2}\text{Sp}(2)\). They present some facts concerning bundles of quaternion algebras and \(K\)-theory of their modules. Also, the authors establish not only these facts and their generalizations, but they make a systematic study of algebraic and topological properties of modules over quaternion bundles. Following classical ring theory the authors study Morita equivalence of bundles of quaternion algebras. For a given bundle of quaternion algebras they compute the Grothendieck group of left modules as a classical \(KO\)-group. For modules over a bundle of quaternion algebras they define characteristic classes and find relations between them and the Chern classes for complex vector bundles. Those complex vector bundles which are bundles over quaternion algebras are also characterized. Finally, the authors examine bundles of complexified quaternion algebras and their Morita equivalence.

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