Local formulae for combinatorial Pontryagin classes

DOI10.1070/IM2004V068N05ABEH000502MaRDI QIDQ4674659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. A. Gaifullin

Publication date 17 May 2005

Published in Izvestiya: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407035

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic local cyclelocal formulaPontrjagin characteristic class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) PL-topology (57Q99) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: By p(|K|) denote the characteristic class of a combinatorial manifold K given by the polynomial p in Pontrjagin classes of K. We prove that for any polynomial p there exists a function taking each combinatorial manifold K to a rational simplicial cycle z(K) such that: (1) the Poincare dual of z(K) represents the cohomology class p(|K|); (2) a coefficient of each simplex in the cycle z(K) is determined only by the combinatorial type of the link of this simplex. We also prove that if a function z satisfies the condition (2), then this function automatically satisfies the condition (1) for some polynomial p. We describe explicitly all such functions z for the first Pontrjagin class. We obtain estimates for denominators of coefficients of simplices in the cycles z(K).

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