scholarly journals Homotopy groups of complements to ample divisors

Author(s):  
Anatoly Libgober
1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasukuni Furukawa

The complex Stiefel manifoldWn,k, wheren≦k≦1, is a space whose points arek-frames inCn. By using the formula of McCarty [4], we will make the calculations of the Whitehead products in the groups π*(Wn,k). The case of real and quaternionic will be treated by Nomura and Furukawa [7]. The product [[η],j1l] appears as generator of the isotropy group of the identity map of Stiefel manifolds. In this note we use freely the results of the 2-components of the homotopy groups of real and complex Stiefel manifolds such as Paechter [8], Hoo-Mahowald [1], Nomura [5], Sigrist [9] and Nomura-Furukawa [6].


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 2949-2980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadok Kallel ◽  
Ines Saihi
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2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Gheorghe ◽  
Daniel C. Isaksen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Davighi ◽  
Nakarin Lohitsiri

Abstract In this note we review the role of homotopy groups in determining non-perturbative (henceforth ‘global’) gauge anomalies, in light of recent progress understanding global anomalies using bordism. We explain why non-vanishing of πd(G) is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for there being a possible global anomaly in a d-dimensional chiral gauge theory with gauge group G. To showcase the failure of sufficiency, we revisit ‘global anomalies’ that have been previously studied in 6d gauge theories with G = SU(2), SU(3), or G2. Even though π6(G) ≠ 0, the bordism groups $$ {\Omega}_7^{\mathrm{Spin}}(BG) $$ Ω 7 Spin BG vanish in all three cases, implying there are no global anomalies. In the case of G = SU(2) we carefully scrutinize the role of homotopy, and explain why any 7-dimensional mapping torus must be trivial from the bordism perspective. In all these 6d examples, the conditions previously thought to be necessary for global anomaly cancellation are in fact necessary conditions for the local anomalies to vanish.


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