Immersions and embeddings of projective spaces
Immersions and embeddings of projective spaces
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投影空间的沉浸和嵌入
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9939-1972-0321111-8
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发表时间:
1972
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通讯作者:
D. Segal
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作者:
S. Feder;D. Segal
The topic is embedding and immersions of complex and quaternionic projective spaces. The results are obtained using spin representations and relating these with the various X-theories in which they occur. A numerical result on nonembeddings and and nonimmersions is obtained. The purpose of this note is to revise and complete the results of [1] and [2]. The reader is referred to the aforementioned articles for a statement of the problem, notation and techniques. We recall only that ^ and <£ stand for "does not immerse" and "does not embed" respectively; CPn denotes the complex and HPn the quaternion projective space and KG denotes the theory of stable G-bundles. The complete statement of results would be as follows: Theorem 1. CPn$ R*»-*«i » »-1 for all n. Theorem 2. CP„<£ R*n~!la<^ for all n. Theorem 3. HPnï /p»-«««»)-*; HPnt R»"-2*«* //a(«)=0 (4)1; HPn$ R8n-Mn)-3; HPn£RSn-2aU)-2 ¡f «(„)=£ J (4) and ffPn$ /?8»-2«<»)-l ¡f x(n) = 0or3 (4). a(n) is the number of l's in the dyadic expansion of n. All the results are obtained using K-theory, namely the spin representation. The improvements come from the knowledge that in various dimensions the complex spin representations are restrictions of quaternionic ones or come from real representations. Theorem 1 has been proven for n odd. To remove this restriction we consider /u=H+v where v is the normal bundle of CPn^ R2n+2k+l (the result is better than that obtained considering CP^^CP,,). Now ¡u is a spin bundle. We let x=H+H—2, x is the generator of the subalgebra of Received by the editors April 22, 1971. AMS 1970 subject classifications. Primary 57A35, 57D40; Secondary 55B15.