2021/12/10 by Lisa C Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Lisa C, Paul Selick +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #55R10 #57R19 #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #math.AT #msc:55R10 #msc:57R19
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.05714
arxiv created 2021/12/10 · arxiv updated 2021/12/13
A principal bundle over the connected sum of two manifolds need not be diffeomorphic or even homotopy equivalent to a non-trivial connected sum of manifolds. We show however that the homology of the total space of a bundle formed a pullback of a bundle over one of the summands is the same as if it had that bundle as a summon. An application appears in a paper by Ho, Jeffrey, Selick, Xia in the Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics in honour of Sir Michael Atiyah. Examples are given, including one where the total space of the pullback is not homotopy equivalent to a connected some with that as a summand and some in which it is. Finally, we describe the homology of the total space of a principal U(1) bundle over a 6-manifold of the type described in Wall's classification. It is a connected sum of an even number of copies of S3× S4 with a 7-manifold whose homology is Z/k in degree 4 (and Z in degrees 0 and 7, and zero in all other degrees.