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Immersions in a Quaternionic Grassmannian inducing a given 4-form

Differential Geometry 2012-12-27 v1

Abstract

Let Gr_k(\H^n) be the Grassmannian manifold of Quaternionic kk-planes in \H^n and let \gamma^n_k\to Gr_k(\H^n) denote the Stiefel bundle of quaternionic kk-frames in \H^n. Let σ\sigma denote the first symplectic Pontrjagin form associated with the universal connection on γkn\gamma^n_k. We show that every 4-form ω\omega on a smooth manifold MM can be induced from σ\sigma by a smooth immersion f:M\to Gr_k(\H^n) (for sufficiently large kk and nn) provided there exists a continuous map f_0:M\to Gr_k(\H^n) which pulls back the cohomology class of σ\sigma onto that of ω\omega.

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@article{arxiv.1212.5885,
  title  = {Immersions in a Quaternionic Grassmannian inducing a given 4-form},
  author = {Mahuya Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5885},
  year   = {2012}
}

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9 pages

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