Vector Fields on Manifolds

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Mathematics, Geometry
Cover of the book Vector Fields on Manifolds by Michael Francis Atiyah, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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Author: Michael Francis Atiyah ISBN: 9783322985033
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Publication: March 9, 2013
Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Language: English
Author: Michael Francis Atiyah
ISBN: 9783322985033
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publication: March 9, 2013
Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Language: English

This paper is a contribution to the topological study of vector fields on manifolds. In particular we shall be concerned with the problems of exist­ ence of r linearly independent vector fields. For r = 1 the classical result of H. Hopf asserts that the vanishing of the Euler characteristic is the necessary and sufficient condition, and our results will give partial extens­ ions of Hopf's theorem to the case r > 1. Arecent article by E. Thomas [10] gives a good survey of work in this general area. Our approach to these problems is based on the index theory of elliptic differential operators and is therefore rather different from the standard topological approach. Briefly speaking, what we do is to observe that certain invariants of a manifold (Euler characteristic, signature, etc. ) are indices of elliptic operators (see [5]) and the existence of a certain number of vector fields implies certain symmetry conditions for these operators and hence corresponding results for their indices. In this way we obtain certain necessary conditions for the existence of vector fields and, more generally , for the existence of fields of tangent planes. For example, one of our results is the following THEOREM (1. 1). Let X be a compact oriented smooth manifold 0/ dimension 4 q, and assume that X possesses a tangent fteld of oriented 2-planes (that is, an oriented 2-dimensional sub-bundle 0/ the tangent vector bundle).

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This paper is a contribution to the topological study of vector fields on manifolds. In particular we shall be concerned with the problems of exist­ ence of r linearly independent vector fields. For r = 1 the classical result of H. Hopf asserts that the vanishing of the Euler characteristic is the necessary and sufficient condition, and our results will give partial extens­ ions of Hopf's theorem to the case r > 1. Arecent article by E. Thomas [10] gives a good survey of work in this general area. Our approach to these problems is based on the index theory of elliptic differential operators and is therefore rather different from the standard topological approach. Briefly speaking, what we do is to observe that certain invariants of a manifold (Euler characteristic, signature, etc. ) are indices of elliptic operators (see [5]) and the existence of a certain number of vector fields implies certain symmetry conditions for these operators and hence corresponding results for their indices. In this way we obtain certain necessary conditions for the existence of vector fields and, more generally , for the existence of fields of tangent planes. For example, one of our results is the following THEOREM (1. 1). Let X be a compact oriented smooth manifold 0/ dimension 4 q, and assume that X possesses a tangent fteld of oriented 2-planes (that is, an oriented 2-dimensional sub-bundle 0/ the tangent vector bundle).

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