Characteristic classes on certain quotients of Stiefel manifolds

2024/02/16 by Debanil Dasgupta, Dasgupta, Debanil
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.10521

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Abstract

In this paper, we calculate characteristic classes for certain quotients of real Stiefel manifolds V_n,k and then derive results on certain numerical invariants, such as characteristic rank and skew embedding dimension, for those spaces.

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