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Rationally $4$-periodic biquotients

Differential Geometry 2017-08-23 v3

Abstract

An nn-dimensional manifold MM is said to be rationally 44-periodic if there is an element eH4(M;Q)e\in H^4(M;\mathbb{Q}) with the property that cupping with ee, e:H(M;Q)H+4(M;Q)\cdot \cup e:H^\ast(M;\mathbb{Q})\rightarrow H^{\ast + 4}(M;\mathbb{Q}) is injective for 0<dimM40< \ast \leq \dim M-4 and surjective when 0<dimM40\leq \ast < \dim M-4. We classify all compact simply connected biquotients which are rationally 44-periodic. In addition, we show that if a simply connected rationally elliptic CW-complex XX of dimension at least 66 is rationally 44-periodic, then the cohomology ring is either singly generated, or XX is rationally homotopy equivalent to S2×HPnS^2\times \mathbb{H}P^n, S3×HPnS^3\times \mathbb{H}P^n, or S3×S3S^3\times S^3.

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@article{arxiv.1605.07694,
  title  = {Rationally $4$-periodic biquotients},
  author = {Jason DeVito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07694},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

The exposition has been shortened at the suggestion of a referee. To appear in Geom. Ded

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