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Tautological rings of fake quaternionic spaces

Algebraic Topology 2023-04-28 v1

Abstract

The tautological ring R(M)R^*(M) of a smooth manifold MM is the ring of characteristic classes generated by the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes, and is often more accessible than the ring of all characteristic classes of smooth MM-bundles. In this paper, we show that the Krull dimension of the tautological ring vanishes for almost all manifolds homotopy equivalent to HP2\mathbb{H} P^2 through a combination of new methods in rational homotopy theory developed by Alexander Berglund and the family signature theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2304.13825,
  title  = {Tautological rings of fake quaternionic spaces},
  author = {Nils Prigge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13825},
  year   = {2023}
}