On the topology of double coset manifolds
On the topology of double coset manifolds
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1993
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W. Singhof
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We consider a compact Lie group G and two closed subgroups H and K of G. The abstract product K x H operates on G by g. (k, h) = k lgh. If this operation happens to be free, the quotient K G / H is a compact manifold, which we call a double coset manifold. These manifolds have attracted the attention of several differential geometers: Gromol] and Meyer [GrM] for instance described an exotic 7-sphere as a double coset manifold. Therefore the class of double coset manifolds is strictly larger than that of homogeneous spaces since Borel observed long ago that a homogeneous space which is homeomorphic to a sphere is actually diffeomorphic to it. A serious study of double coset manifolds was made by Eschenburg [E1-E4]. He showed that some of them admit Riemannian metrics with strictly positive sectional curvature; he obtained a classification of certain types of double coset manifolds and computed the cohomology of some of them. The objective of the present paper is to show that in many respects the topology of double coset manifolds is as easy to handle as that of homogeneous spaces. To compute the cohomology of G/H, the best way is to look at the fibration