On vanishing of characteristic numbers in Poincaré complexes
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Abstract:
Let $G_r(X)\subset \pi _r(X)$ be the evaluation subgroup as defined by Gottlieb. Assume the Hurewicz map $G_r(X)\rightarrow H_r(X; R)$ is non-trivial and $R$ is a field. We will prove: if $X$ is a Poincaré complex oriented in $R$-coefficient, all the characteristic numbers of $X$ in $R$-coefficient vanish. Similarly, if $R=Z_p$ and $X$ is a $Z_p$-Poincaré complex, then all the mod $p$ Wu numbers vanish. We will also show that the existence of a non-trivial derivation on $H^*(X; Z_p)$ with some suitable conditions implies vanishing of mod $p$ Wu numbers.References
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Additional Information
- Yanghyun Byun
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5683
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791 Korea
- Email: Yanghyun.Byun.1@nd.edu
- Received by editor(s): November 14, 1994
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 20, 1995
- © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 3085-3095
- MSC (1991): Primary 57P10, 57N65
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01495-X
- MathSciNet review: 1322949