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Old and New Structures on Products of Spheres
Abstract
A classical theorem of Kervaire states that products of spheres are
parallelizable if and only if at least one of the factors has odd
dimension.
In this note I give explicit parallelizations,
and use them to describe G-structures on products of two spheres,
for G=U(n), Sp(n), G2,
Spin(7), Spin(9).
This approach gives an alternative description of the classical
Calabi-Eckmann structures, and of some G2,
Spin(7), Spin(9)-structures on S6×S1,
S7×S1, S15×S1
respectively. In other products of spheres
some new G-structures are obtained.
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