Mod 2 cohomology of combinatorial Grassmannians

Details Mod 2 cohomology of combinatorial Grassmannians Mod 2 cohomology of combinatorial Grassmannians

1999-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/9911158v1

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Matroid bundles, introduced by MacPherson, are combinatorial analogues of real vector bundles. This paper sets up the foundations of matroid bundles, and defines a natural transformation from isomorphism classes of real vector bundles to isomorphism classes of matroid bundles, as well as a transformation from matroid bundles to spherical quasifibrations. The poset of oriented matroids of a fixed rank classifies matroid bundles, and the above transformations give a splitting from topology to combinatorics back to topology. This shows the mod 2 cohomology of the poset of rank k oriented matroids (this poset classifies matroid bundles) contains the free polynomial ring on the first k Stiefel-Whitney classes. The homotopy groups of this poset are related to the image of the J-homomorphism from stable homotopy theory.

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