An optimal Borsuk-Ulam theorem for products of spheres and Stiefel manifolds
Yu Hin Chan, Shujian Chen, Florian Frick, J. Tristan Hull · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
We give a new, simplified proof of a general Borsuk--Ulam theorem for a product of spheres, originally due to Ramos. That is, we show the non-existence of certain $(\mathbb{Z}/2)^k$-equivariant maps from a product of $k$ spheres to the unit sphere in a real $(\mathbb{Z}/2)^k$-representation of the same dimension. Our proof method applies to show an optimal Borsuk--Ulam theorem for certain equivariant maps from Stiefel manifolds to spheres, strengthening and generalizing a result of Fadell and Husseini.