Various structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles over 8-manifolds

• Autorzy: Martin Čadek , Jiří Vanžura
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper is an overview of our results concerning the existence of various structures, especially complex and quaternionic, in 8-dimensional vector bundles over closed connected smooth 8-manifolds.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

obstructions; Cayley numbers; principle of triality; vector bundle; characteristic classes; classifying spaces; reduction of the structure group

• Wydawca: Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Banach Center Publications
• Rocznik: 1998
• Tom: 45
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 183-197

Daty

wydano

1998

Twórcy

autor

Martin Čadek

• Department of Algebra and Geometry, Masaryk University, Jan, ' ačkovo n, ' am. 2a, 662 95 Brno, Czech Republic

autor

Jiří Vanžura

• Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Mathematics, Žižkova 22, 616 62 Brno, Czech Republic

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