3 papers
math.RT2020
Stiefel Whitney Classes for Real representations of
Jyotirmoy Ganguly, Rohit Joshi
We compute the total Stiefel Whitney class for a real representation of , where is odd. The obstruction class of is defined to be the Stief…
math.RT2020
Spinorial Representations of Orthogonal Groups
Jyotirmoy Ganguly, Rohit Joshi
Let be a real compact Lie group, such that , with simple. Here is the connected component of containing the identity and is the cyclic g…
math.RT2019
Spinoriality of orthogonal representations of reductive groups
Rohit Joshi, Steven Spallone
Let G be a connected reductive group over a field of characteristic zero, and consider an orthogonal representation of G. We give a simple criterion for whether the representation…