1. Introduction. The main purpose of this paper is to present a generalization of Hirzebruch's signature theorem for the case of manifolds with boundary. Our result is in the framework of Riemannian geometry and can be viewed as analogous to the Gauss–Bonnet theorem for manifolds with boundary, although there is a very significant difference between the two cases which is, in a sense, the central topic of the paper. To explain this difference let us begin by recalling that the classical Gauss–Bonnet theorem for a surface X with boundary Y asserts that the Euler characteristic E(X) is given by a formula:where K is the Gauss curvature of X and σ is the geodesic curvature of Y in X. In particular if, near the boundary, X is isometric to the product Y x R+, the boundary integral in (1.1) vanishes and the formula is the same as for closed surfaces. Similar remarks hold in higher dimensions. Now if X is a closed oriented Riemannian manifold of dimension 4, there is another formula relating cohomological invariants with curvature in addition to the Gauss–Bonnet formula. This expresses the signature of the quadratic form on H2(X, R) by an integral formulawhere p1 is the differential 4-form representing the first Pontrjagin class and is given in terms of the curvature matrix R by p1 = (2π)−2Tr R2. It is natural to ask if (1.2) continues to hold for manifolds with boundary, provided the metric is a product near the boundary. Simple examples show that this is false, so that in general

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Spectral asymmetry and Riemannian geometry. III

https://www.ams.org/tran/1963-108-02/S0002-9947-1963-99936-3/S0002-9947-1963-99936-3.pdf

Homotopy associativity of -spaces. I

For i ≥ 1 they are indeed groups, for i ≥ 2 even abelian groups, which carry a lot of information about the homotopy type of X. However, even for spaces which are easy to define (like spheres), they can be very hard to compute. Even in low dimensions it is difficult to see a clear pattern among the homotopy groups of spheres; especially the torsion shows a seemingly wild behaviour. This suggests that in a first step it might be a good idea to ignore the torsion in the homotopy groups and to just consider the rational homotopy groups (the homotopy groups tensored with Q).

Rational homotopy theory

The index of elliptic operators

Categories and cohomology theories

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On the Non-Existence of Elements of Hopf Invariant One

The question of vector fields on spheres arises in homotopy theory and in the theory of fibre bundles, and it presents a classical problem, which may be explained as follows. For each n, let Sn-I be the unit sphere in euclidean n-space Rn. A vector field on Sn-1 is a continuous function v assigning to each point x of Sn-1 a vector v(x) tangent to Sn-1 at x. Given r such fields v1, v2, ..., Vr, we say that they are linearly independent if the vectors v1(x), v2(x), *--, vr(x) are linearly independent for all x. The problem, then, is the following: for each n, what is the maximum number r of linearly independent vector fields on Sn-i? For previous work and background material on this problem, we refer the reader to [1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]. In particular, we recall that if we are given r linearly independent vector fields vi(x), then by orthogonalisation it is easy to construct r fields wi(x) such that w1(x), w2(x), *I * , wr(x) are orthonormal for each x. These r fields constitute a cross-section of the appropriate Stiefel fibering. The strongest known positive result about the problem derives from the Hurwitz-Radon-Eckmann theorem in linear algebra [8]. It may be stated as follows (cf. James [13]). Let us write n = (2a + 1)2b and b = c + 4d, where a, b, c and d are integers and 0 < c < 3; let us define p(n) = 2c + 8d. Then there exist p(n) 1 linearly independent vector fields on Sn-1. It is the object of the present paper to prove that the positive result stated above is best possible.

Vector Fields on Spheres

https://math.unice.fr/~cazanave/Gdt/ImJ/J-IV.pdf

On the groups J(X)—IV

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/42/7/409.full.pdf

On the cobar construction.

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Papers

On the Non-Existence of Elements of Hopf Invariant One

Vector Fields on Spheres

On the groups J(X)—IV

On the cobar construction.

On the Structure and Applications of the STEENROD Algebra.