The Cohomology of BSO n and BO n with Integer Coefficients

DOI10.2307/2044298zbMath0509.55010OpenAlexW1969489840MaRDI QIDQ4747240

Edgar H. jun. Brown

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2044298

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classEuler classStiefel-Whitney classestwo torsionThom-Gysin sequenceclassifying space of unitary groupintegral cohomology of BSO(n) and BO(n)integral Pontrjagin classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Homology and homotopy of (Bmathrm{O}) and (Bmathrm{U}); Bott periodicity (55R45)

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