A combinatorial formula for the Pontrjagin classes

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00282-3zbMath0756.57015arXivmath/9204231OpenAlexW2071328174MaRDI QIDQ4005819

Robert MacPherson, Israel M. Gel'fand

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9204231

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil theoryoriented matroid theorycombinatorial formula for the Pontryagin classes of a triangulated manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Triangulating (57R05)

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