Not signed in (Sign In)

Not signed in

Want to take part in these discussions? Sign in if you have an account, or apply for one below

  • Sign in using OpenID

Discussion Tag Cloud

Vanilla 1.1.10 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.

Welcome to nForum
If you want to take part in these discussions either sign in now (if you have an account), apply for one now (if you don't).
    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2016

    I have added some minimum content to Stiefel manifold, also a little bit to Grassmannian

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2016
    • (edited May 3rd 2016)

    What’s a good account of the CW-structure on Stiefel manifolds compatible with the CW-structure on the Grassmannians? Hatcher’s book discusses really just the latter. On Math.SE here somebody claims that I. M. James’ “The topology of Stiefel manifolds” is a “good reference for this sort of thing”. But there I only see some remarks on pages 5 and 21 of which I am not sure whether they really constitute a good reference for this sort of thing.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2016

    Schubert cells in flag manifolds are what I would look up. Don’t know a reference, sadly.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2016
    • (edited May 3rd 2016)

    The cleanest account which I find is in this presentation, on the last slides

    • Zbigniew Błaszczyk, On cell decompositions of SO(n)SO(n) (pdf)
    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2016
    • (edited May 5th 2016)

    There’s a nice argument in the example on page 58 in these notes that the inclusion V n( N)V n( 2N)V_n(\mathbb{C}^N) \to V_n(\mathbb{C}^{2N}) is null-homotopic, for what it’s worth.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2016
    • (edited May 5th 2016)

    Also, Theorem 3.3 in this paper says that the inclusion of unitary groups i:SU(k)SU(n)i\colon SU(k) \to SU(n), k<nk\lt n, is cellular, and then 3.3.1 says that the action of SU(nm)SU(n-m) on SU(n)SU(n) is cellular. I would be then happy to say that ii is equivariant relative to the cellular map of groups SU(km)SU(nm)SU(k-m) \to SU(n-m), and so we have a chance for the inclusion of Stiefel manifolds to be cellular. I guess if we knew that the quotient map itself, SU(n)SU(n)/SU(nm)SU(n) \to SU(n)/SU(n-m) were cellular, we would probably be done.

    EDIT: Ah, I see page 301-302 of Hatcher’s Algebraic Topology that the quotient map SO(n)SO(n)/SO(nk)SO(n) \to SO(n)/SO(n-k) is cellular, for the cell structure on the Stiefel manifold inherited from the one on SO(n)SO(n). I would guess this works for both complex and real, and ditto for my first paragraph.


    EDIT2: The following is probably not useful.

    Page 13-15 in The Topology of CW complexes looks like it gives a cellular structure for the Stiefel manifold (there called FQ(n,m)FQ(n,m)) that would be compatible with inclusions.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2016

    Thanks!!

    I have recorded that here.

    (No time for more at the moment.)

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2023

    Gave a proof of the corollary, linking to a result at compact object on the preservation of certain colimits by Top(Y,)Top(Y, -) where YY is a compact space.

    diff, v12, current