English

Vector bundles over Grassmannians and the skew-symmetric curvature operator

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

A pseudo-Riemannian manifold is said to be spacelike Jordan IP if the Jordan normal form of the skew-symmetric curvature operator depends upon the point of the manifold, but not upon the particular spacelike 2-plane in the tangent bundle at that point. We use methods of algebraic topology to classify connected spacelike Jordan IP pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p,q)(p,q), where q11q\ge 11, pq64p\le \frac{q-6}{4} and where the set {q,...,q+p}\{q, . . ., q+p\} does not contain a power of 2.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0407284,
  title  = {Vector bundles over Grassmannians and the skew-symmetric curvature operator},
  author = {Iva Stavrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407284},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn due to a transfer of copyright agreement. The paper will appear in Differential Geometry and its Applications