A combinatorial formula for the Pontrjagin classes

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00282-3MaRDI QIDQ4005819zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert MacPherson, I. 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 theorycombinatorial formula for the Pontryagin classes of a triangulated manifoldoriented matroid theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A combinatorial formula for the Pontrjagin classes of a triangulated manifold is given. The main ingredients are oriented matroid theory and a modified formulation of Chern-Weil theory.

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