Using fiberings, we determine the cup-length and the Lyusternik-Shnirel’man category for some infinite families of real flag manifolds $O(n₁+...+n_q)/O\left(n₁\right)\times ...\times O\left(n_q\right)$, q ≥ 3. We also give, or describe ways to obtain, interesting estimates for the cup-length of any $O(n₁+...+n_q)/O\left(n₁\right)\times ...\times O\left(n_q\right)$, q ≥ 3. To present another approach (combining well with the “method of fiberings”), we generalize to the real flag manifolds Stong’s approach used for calculations in the ℤ₂-cohomology algebra of the Grassmann manifolds.

This paper is a continuation of [19], [21], [22]. We study flat connections with isolated singularities in some transitive Lie algebroids for which either $ℝ$ or $\mathrm{s}l(2,ℝ)$ or $so\left(3\right)$ are isotropy Lie algebras. Under the assumption that the dimension of the isotropy Lie algebra is equal to $n+1$, where $n$ is the dimension of the base manifold, we assign to any such isolated singularity a real number called an index. For $ℝ$-Lie algebroids, this index cannot be an integer. We prove the index theorem (the Euler-Poincaré-Hopf...

Let M be a closed orientable manifold of dimension dand ${𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)$ be the usual cochain algebra on M with coefficients in a fieldk. The Hochschild cohomology of M, $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is a graded commutative and associative algebra. The augmentation map $\epsilon :{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)\to 𝑘$ induces a morphism of algebras $I:H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))\to H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$. In this paper we produce a chain model for the morphism I. We show that the kernel of I is a nilpotent ideal and that the image of I is contained in the center of $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$, which is in general quite small. The algebra $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is expected to be isomorphic...

Little is known about the global topology of the Fatou set U(f) for holomorphic endomorphisms $f:ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\to ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, when k >1. Classical theory describes U(f) as the complement in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$ of the support of a dynamically defined closed positive (1,1) current. Given any closed positive (1,1) current S on $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, we give a definition of linking number between closed loops in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS$ and the current S. It has the property that if lk(γ,S) ≠ 0, then γ represents a non-trivial homology element in $H₁\left(ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS\right)$. As an application, we use these linking...