The computation of Stiefel-Whitney classes.

DOI10.5802/AIF.2533MaRDI QIDQ978568zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Guillot

Publication date 25 June 2010

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3121, https://eudml.org/doc/116282

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmscohomology of groupscomputationcharacteristic classesStiefel-Whitney classesSteenrod operationscohomology ringsChow ringsSteenrod algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives (14C15) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Steenrod algebra (55S10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: The cohomology ring of a finite group, with coefficients in a finite field, can be computed by a machine, as Carlson has showed. Here "compute" means to find a presentation in terms of generators and relations, and involves only the underlying (graded) ring. We propose a method to determine some of the extra structure: namely, Stiefel-Whitney classes and Steenrod operations. The calculations are explicitly carried out for about one hundred groups (the results can be consulted on the Internet). Next, we give an application: thanks to the new information gathered, we can in many cases determine which cohomology classes are supported by algebraic varieties.

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