A note on the rational homotopy type of the projectivization of the tangent bundle of complex projective spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the rational homotopy type of the total space of the projectivization of the complex tangent bundle $\tau : \mathbb{C}^n \longrightarrow E \longrightarrow \mathbb{C}P^{n}$. We show that the total space $P(E)$ of the projectivization bundle $P(\tau): \mathbb{C}P^{n-1} \longrightarrow P(E) \longrightarrow \mathbb{C}P^{n}$ has the rational homotopy type of $\mathrm{U}(n+1)/\mathrm{U}(1)\times \mathrm{U}(1)\times \mathrm{U}(n-1)$.