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Obstruction theory on 7-manifolds

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2020

Abstract

This paper gives a uniform, self-contained, and direct approach to a variety of obstruction-theoretic problems on manifolds of dimension 7 and 6. We give necessary and sufficient cohomological criteria for the existence of various G-structures on vector bundles over such manifolds especially using low dimensional representations of U(2).