Diffeomorphism type of the Berger space SO(5)/SO(3)

Goette, Sebastian and Kitchloo, Nitu and Shankar, Krishnan (2004) Diffeomorphism type of the Berger space SO(5)/SO(3). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, 126 (2). pp. 395-416. ISSN 0002-9327, 1080-6377

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Abstract

We compute the Eells-Kuiper invariant of the Berger manifold SO (5)/SO (3) and determine that it is diffeomorphic to the total space of an S-3-bundle over S-4. This answers a question raised by K. Grove and W. Ziller.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: HOMOGENEOUS SPACES; DIRAC OPERATOR; REPRESENTATIONS; CLASSIFICATION; CURVATURE; SPHERES;
Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Divisions: Mathematics
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2021 10:14
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2021 10:14
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/37757

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