Formality of Sphere Bundles

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Autore principale: Zhou, Jiawei
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author Zhou, Jiawei
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contents We study the formality of orientable sphere bundles over connected compact manifolds. When the base manifold is formal, we prove that the formality of the bundle is equivalent to the vanishing of the Bianchi-Massey tensor introduced by Crowley-Nordström. As an example, this implies that the unit tangent bundle over a formal manifold can only be formal when the base manifold has vanishing Euler characteristic or a rational cohomology ring generated by one element. When the base manifold is not formal, we give an obstruction to the formality of sphere bundles whose Euler class is reducible.
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spellingShingle Formality of Sphere Bundles
Zhou, Jiawei
Algebraic Topology
We study the formality of orientable sphere bundles over connected compact manifolds. When the base manifold is formal, we prove that the formality of the bundle is equivalent to the vanishing of the Bianchi-Massey tensor introduced by Crowley-Nordström. As an example, this implies that the unit tangent bundle over a formal manifold can only be formal when the base manifold has vanishing Euler characteristic or a rational cohomology ring generated by one element. When the base manifold is not formal, we give an obstruction to the formality of sphere bundles whose Euler class is reducible.
title Formality of Sphere Bundles
topic Algebraic Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09594