Non-kinetic bundles from nontrivial smooth SU(2)-actions

Let WW be an arbitrary closed manifold on which SU(2)SU(2) acts smoothly and non-trivially. Let s ⁣:BSU(2)BDiff(W)s\colon BSU(2) \to B\operatorname{Diff}(W) be the induced map on classifying spaces, and let ψk ⁣:BSU(2)BSU(2)\psi_k\colon BSU(2)\to BSU(2) be the map appearing in the conjecture. For an odd integer k>1k>1, the bundle classified by

sψk ⁣:BSU(2)BDiff(W)s\circ\psi_k\colon BSU(2)\to B\operatorname{Diff}(W)

is non-kinetic. Non-kinetic bundle conjecture. For every odd integer k>1k>1, the bundle classified by sψks\circ\psi_k is non-kinetic. This conjecture proposes that nontrivial smooth SU(2)SU(2)-actions produce genuinely non-kinetic bundles after applying the specified self-map of BSU(2)BSU(2); its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Jens Reinhold, “Tautological classes and smooth bundles over BSU(2)”, arXiv:1802.02248 (2018).

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