Topological obstructions to fatness

DOI10.2140/GT.2011.15.891MaRDI QIDQ543059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfgang Ziller, Luis A. Florit

Publication date 17 June 2011

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0967

zbMATH Keywords

submersionpositive curvaturefat principle bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: Alan Weinstein showed that certain characteristic numbers of any Riemannian submersion with totally geodesic fibers and positive vertizontal curvatures are nonzero. In this paper we explicitly compute these invariants in terms of Chern and Pontrjagin numbers of the bundle. This allows us to show that many bundles do not admit such metrics.

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