Milnor operations and classifying spaces

Abstract

We give an example of a nonzero odd degree element of the classifying space of a connected Lie group such that all higher Milnor operations vanish on it. It is a counterexample for a conjecture of Kono and Yagita.

11 pages, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

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