A Relation Between Existence of Real Symmetric Nonsingular Bilinear Maps and the Antisymmetric Index of Projective Spaces

2015/11/14 by Carlos Dominguez-Albino, Dominguez-Albino, Carlos
Mathematics · #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.AT

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.04632

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Abstract

We obtain a new proof, using integral cohomology and group actions, of an old embedding theorem for real projective spaces.

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