Maps into and applications
This paper has two parts. Part one is mainly intended as a general introduction to the problem of sectioning vector bundles (in particular tangent bundles of smooth manifolds) by everywhere linearly independent sections, giving a survey of some ideas, methods and results.Part two then records some recent progress in sectioning tangent bundles of several families of specific manifolds.
An interesting connection between the chromatic number of a graph and the connectivity of an associated simplicial complex , its “neighborhood complex”, was found by Lovász in 1978 (cf. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 25, 319-324 (1978; Zbl 0418.05028)]). In 1986 a generalization to the chromatic number of a -uniform hypergraph , for an odd prime, using an associated simplicial complex , was found ([, and , Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 298, 359-370 (1986; Zbl 0605.05033)], Prop. 2.1). It was already...
In this note we give examples in every dimension of piecewise linearly homeomorphic, closed, connected, smooth -manifolds which admit two smoothness structures with differing spans, stable spans, and immersion co-dimensions. In dimension the examples include the total spaces of certain -sphere bundles over . The construction of such manifolds is based on the topological variance of the second Pontrjagin class: a fact which goes back to Milnor and which was used by Roitberg to give examples...
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