{ "id": "0903.4969", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-03-28T14:39:07.000Z", "updated": "2009-03-28T14:39:07.000Z", "title": "On the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the representations associated with Spin(15)", "authors": [ "Mamoru Mimura", "Tetsu Nishimoto" ], "comment": "This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 14 November 2007", "journal": "Geom. Topol. Monogr. 11 (2007) 141-176", "doi": "10.2140/gtm.2007.11.141", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We determine the Stiefel-Whitney classes of the second exterior representation and the spin representation of Spin(15), which are useful to calculate the mod 2 cohomology of the classifying space of the exceptional Lie group E_8.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-03-28T14:39:07.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55R40", "22E46" ], "keywords": [ "stiefel-whitney classes", "representations", "second exterior representation", "exceptional lie group", "spin representation" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0903.4969M" } } }