Signatures of singular branched covers

DOI10.1007/BF01444908MaRDI QIDQ1318030zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Patrick M. Gilmer

Publication date 25 August 1994

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/165063

zbMATH Keywords

branched cyclic \(d\)-fold coversbranched cyclic cover of \(\mathbb{C}\)P\((2k)\) along a collection of hyperplanesbranching indexclosed smooth oriented manifoldeigenspace signaturesHirzebruch \(L\)-classrational homology manifoldssingular algebraic varietiesstable tangent bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological properties in algebraic geometry (14F45) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

We consider branched cyclic \(d\)-fold covers of a closed smooth oriented manifold \(M\) along a collection of codimension-2 smooth oriented submanifolds \(\{K_ i\}\) which are in general position, where the branching index of each submanifold is \(d\). It is shown that these are rational homology manifolds. A formula for the eigenspace signatures of the cover in terms of the Hirzebruch \(L\)-class of \(M\) and 2-dimensional cohomology classes dual to the \(K_ i\) is given. Many singular algebraic varieties arise in this manner. As an application the signature of a \(d\)- fold branched cyclic cover of \(\mathbb{C} \text{P} (2k)\) along a collection of \(d\) hyperplanes in general position is calculated to be \(1+{d-1 \choose k+1}\). A formula for the stable tangent bundle of a branched cover along a single submanifold is also given.

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