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November 2008 Span of Dold Manifolds
Peter Novotný
Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 15(4): 687-698 (November 2008). DOI: 10.36045/bbms/1225893948

Abstract

We study span and stable span of Dold manifolds $P(m,n)$. We present several lower and upper bounds for these invariants, and for some pairs $(m,n)$, we determine the exact values of span or stable span. In the case $P(m,1)$, $m\not\equiv15\pmod{16}$, we show how the maximum number of everywhere linearly independent vector fields can be constructed.

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Peter Novotný. "Span of Dold Manifolds." Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 15 (4) 687 - 698, November 2008. https://doi.org/10.36045/bbms/1225893948

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Published: November 2008
First available in Project Euclid: 5 November 2008

zbMATH: 1161.57016
MathSciNet: MR2475492
Digital Object Identifier: 10.36045/bbms/1225893948

Subjects:
Primary: 57R25
Secondary: 55S40 , 57R20

Keywords: Dold manifold , span , stable span , Stiefel-Whitney class , vector field

Rights: Copyright © 2008 The Belgian Mathematical Society

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