Stiefel-Whitney classes of real representations of finite groups

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(89)90309-8MaRDI QIDQ1263126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Gunarwardena, Bruno Kahn, Charles B. Thomas

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(89)90309-8

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsHirzebruch axiomsrepresentationsStiefel-Whitney classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Review text

The authors prove that for representations of finite groups there exists one and only one family of Stiefel-Whitney classes which satisfies a modified version of Hirzebruch axioms. The construction is done within the framework of the cohomology of finite groups. They compute these classes in several cases and give examples for which the mod 2 cohomology of the group is generated by Stiefel-Whitney classes of representations.

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