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2011 Topological obstructions to fatness
Luis A Florit, Wolfgang Ziller
Geom. Topol. 15(2): 891-925 (2011). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2011.15.891

Abstract

Alan Weinstein showed that certain characteristic numbers of any Riemannian submersion with totally geodesic fibers and positive vertizontal curvatures are nonzero. In this paper we explicitly compute these invariants in terms of Chern and Pontrjagin numbers of the bundle. This allows us to show that many bundles do not admit such metrics.

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Luis A Florit. Wolfgang Ziller. "Topological obstructions to fatness." Geom. Topol. 15 (2) 891 - 925, 2011. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2011.15.891

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Received: 19 February 2010; Accepted: 20 April 2011; Published: 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1259.53033
MathSciNet: MR2821566
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2011.15.891

Subjects:
Primary: 53C20 , 57R20 , 57R22

Keywords: fat principle bundle , Positive curvature , submersion

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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