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Degeneracy of triality-symmetric morphisms

Dave Anderson
Vol. 6 (2012), No. 4, 689–706
DOI: 10.2140/ant.2012.6.689
Abstract

We define a new symmetry for morphisms of vector bundles, called triality symmetry, and compute Chern class formulas for the degeneracy loci of such morphisms. In an appendix, we show how to canonically associate an octonion algebra bundle to any rank-2 vector bundle.

Keywords
degeneracy locus, triality, octonions, equivariant cohomology
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 14M15
Secondary: 14F43, 14N15, 20G99, 17A75
Milestones
Received: 27 September 2010
Revised: 10 June 2011
Accepted: 13 August 2011
Published: 25 July 2012
Authors
Dave Anderson
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
United States		 Department of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
United States