K-theory of oriented flag manifolds
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Vimala Ramani
Abstract
We compute the complex K-ring of oriented flag manifolds F̃(n1, … , nk), k ≥ 3, of type (n1, … , nk). We use the representation theory of spinor groups and the Hodgkin spectral sequence for the computation of the K-ring.
Acknowledgement
The author is indebted to Professor Parameswaran Sankaran for very helpful discussions and encouragement, to Shilpa Gondhali for discussions and her suggestion to simplify the notations. The author thanks the anonymous referee for very valuable comments and suggestions which improved the paper. The author thanks The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, for the facilities provided under the Associateship Programme for College and University teachers.
(Communicated by Tibor Macko)
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- Weakly κ-compact topological spaces
- On sharp radius estimates for S*(β) and a product function
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