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A note on the homotopy invariance of Pontrjagin classes (English)
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28 January 1997
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The following theorem is proved in this article: Let \(p\) be an odd prime. For every \(n \geq 1\), \(p_n \bmod p^r\) is homotopy invariant iff \(p = 3\) and \(r = 1\). This result develops the classical result of \textit{Wen-Tsün Wu} [Sci. Sinica 3, 353-367 (1954), 455-490 (1955; Zbl 0068.37005)] and excludes other Pontryagin classes of stable vector bundles with properties \(p \neq 3\) and \(r > 1\). The proof of the theorem is based on the Adams operation and on approaches of B. L. Sharma and W. T. Wu.
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homotopy invariance
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Pontryagin classes
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stable vector bundles
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Adams operation
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