There are three questions:


1. Please let me know your proof of the following theorem:


If $CP^3$ can be immersed in $R^8$ with an Euler class $W\_{2}(\nu)$ for the normal bundle of $CP^3$ respect to $R^8$ then
$$\int\_{CP^3} \!W\_{{2}} \left( \nu \right) c^2$$
is divisible by 3.


Where $c$ is the cohomological generator of $CP^3$.


2. What is the exact value of the integral


$$\int\_{CP^3} \!W\_{{2}} \left( \nu \right) c^2$$


3. It is possible to have an immersion of $CP^3$ in $R^8$?


Many thanks.



An integrality theorem for immersions of complex projective spaces in the euclidean space
I may have miscalculated, but writing $e(\nu)$ for the Euler class of the normal bundle to such an immersion I find that
$$\int\_{\mathbb{CP}^3} e(\nu) c^2 = 2,$$
which appears to contradict 1).


To see this, write $\nu$ for the oriented 2-plane bundle occurring as the normal bundle of the immersion, so that $T\mathbb{CP}^3 \oplus \nu = \epsilon^8$. As the total Pontrjagin class is $p(T\mathbb{CP}^3) = (1-c^2)^4 = 1-4c^2$, we find that $p(\nu) = p(T\mathbb{CP}^3)^{-1} = 1+4c^2$, and hence $p\_1(\nu) = (2c)^2$. For an oriented 2-plane bundle we have $p\_1 = e^2$, and so $e(\nu)=2c$. Thus
$$\int\_{\mathbb{CP}^3} e(\nu) c^2 = \int\_{\mathbb{CP}^3} 2 c^3 = 2.$$


