Invariance of Pontrjagin classes for Bott manifolds
Algebraic Topology
2015-05-27 v1
Abstract
A Bott manifold is the total space of some iterated -bundle over a point. We prove that any graded ring isomorphism between the cohomology rings of two Bott manifolds preserves their Pontrjagin classes. Moreover, we prove that such an isomorphism is induced from a diffeomorphism if the Bott manifolds are -trivial, where a Bott manifold is called -trivial if its cohomology ring with -coefficient is isomorphic to that of a product of 's.
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@article{arxiv.1401.0893,
title = {Invariance of Pontrjagin classes for Bott manifolds},
author = {Suyoung Choi and Mikiya Masuda and Satoshi Murai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0893},
year = {2015}
}