Milnor operations and classifying spaces
Algebraic Topology
2026-01-13 v2
Abstract
We give an example of a nonzero odd degree element of the classifying space of a connected Lie group such that all higher Milnor operations vanish on it. It is a counterexample for a conjecture of Kono and Yagita.
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@article{arxiv.2210.03284,
title = {Milnor operations and classifying spaces},
author = {Masaki Kameko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03284},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
11 pages, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society