THE COHOMOLOGY OF QUOTIENTS OF CLASSICAL GROUPS
THE COHOMOLOGY OF QUOTIENTS OF CLASSICAL GROUPS
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DOI:
10.1016/0040-9383(65)90001-7
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发表时间:
1965
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通讯作者:
W. Browder
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作者:
P. Baum;W. Browder
THE HOMOLOGY and cohomology rings of the classical compact Lie groups so (n), SU (n), Sp (n) are well known (for example see Bore1 [3]). Most of these groups have non-trivial centers, and in [4], Bore1 investigated the quotients of these groups by central subgroups, in particular, calculating cohomology rings with Zp coefficients, p prime. In this paper we pursue the investigation of these quotients further, extending Borel’s results. We obtain extra information on the integral cohomology and we completely determine the diagonal maps in cohomology with 2, coefficients p prime, and the action of the Steenrod algebra in any quotient of one of these groups by a central subgroup. This information leads to some applications such as the fact that homotopy equivalent compact connected simple groups are isomorphic, and a technique to prove facts about vector fields on real projective spaces,(see $9). These results on vector fields may be applied to prove non-immersion theorems for real projective spaces. In particular, it is shown that if n= 2’+ 3, r 2 3, then P*-l and P” do not immerse in R2”-7. Mahowald [9] and Sanderson [12] have shown that P” does immerse in RZn-‘, so that this is the best possible immersion for P” and P”-‘.