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On 4-manifolds and span-related numbers for CAT manifolds (English)
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25 June 1992
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The author uses work of Donaldson and Quinn to extend the Hirzebruch-Hopf classification of O(4)-bundles on a smooth four-manifold to TOP(4) bundles on a topological four-manifold. As a sample, he shows that an orientable TOP(4) bundle over a four-dimensional complex has a sub- \(\mathbb{R}^ 1\)-bundle if and only if the Euler class vanishes; it has a sub-disk-bundle if and only if the Kirby-Siebenmann obstruction vanishes and it splits off a line bundle if and only if both the Euler class and the Kirby-Siebenmann obstruction vanish.
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smooth four-manifold
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topological four-manifold
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Euler class
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Kirby- Siebenmann obstruction
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