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The Chow ring of the classifying space $BSO(2n,{\mathbb C})$

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We compute the Chow ring of the classifying space BSO(2n,\C)BSO(2n,\C) in the sense of Totaro using the fibration Gl(2n)/SO(2n)BSO(2n)BGl(2n)Gl(2n)/SO(2n) \to BSO(2n) \to BGl(2n) and a computation of the Chow ring of Gl(2n)/SO(2n)Gl(2n)/SO(2n) in a previous paper. We find this Chow ring is generated by Chern classes and a characteristic class defined by Edidin and Graham which maps to 2n12^{n-1} times the Euler class under the usual class map from the Chow ring to ordinary cohomology. Moreover, we show this class represents 1/2n1(n1)!1/2^{n-1}(n-1)! times the nthn^{th} Chern class of the representation of SO(2n) whose highest weight vector is twice that of the half-spin representation.

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@article{arxiv.math/0411424,
  title  = {The Chow ring of the classifying space $BSO(2n,{\mathbb C})$},
  author = {Rebecca E. Field},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411424},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages