Obstructions for Clifford Structures on Vector Bundles.
We extend the constructions and results of Damian to get topological obstructions to the existence of closed monotone Lagrangian embeddings into the cotangent bundle of a space which is the total space of a fibration over the circle.
We give several sufficients conditions for a 2-cycle of Diff (resp. Diff) represented by a foliated -(resp. -) bundle over a 2-torus to be homologous to zero. Such a 2-cycle is determined by two commuting diffeomorphisms , of (resp. ). If , have fixed points, we construct decompositions: , , where the interiors of Supp Supp are disjoint, and and belong either to ( Diff) or to a one-parameter subgroup generated by a -vectorfield . Under some conditions on the norms...
It is shown that the -index of a 2-distribution in an 8-dimensional spin vector bundle over an 8-complex is independent of the 2-distribution. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of 2-distributions in such vector bundles are given in terms of characteristic classes and a certain secondary cohomology operation. In some cases this operation is computed.
Let ξ be an oriented 8-dimensional spin vector bundle over an 8-complex. In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for ξ to have 4 linearly independent sections or to be a sum of two 4-dimensional spin vector bundles, in terms of characteristic classes and higher order cohomology operations. On closed connected spin smooth 8-manifolds these operations can be computed.
We study an integro-differential operator Φ: H̅¹ → L² of Fredholm type and give sufficient conditions for Φ to be a diffeomorphism. An application to functional equations is presented.
We discuss relations among several invariants of 3-manifolds including Meyer's function, the η-invariant, the von Neumann ρ-invariant and the Casson invariant from the viewpoint of the mapping class group of a surface.
We consider the problem of extending the result of J.-P. Jouanolou on the density of singular holomorphic foliations on without algebraic solutions to the case of foliations by curves on . We give an example of a foliation on with no invariant algebraic set (curve or surface) and prove that a dense set of foliations admits no invariant algebraic set.