Smooth parametrized torsion: A manifold approach

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2009.01.005zbMATH Open1166.19001arXiv0711.1911OpenAlexW2963831722MaRDI QIDQ1016485FDOQ1016485

Authors: Bernard Badzioch, Wojciech Dorabiala, Bruce E. Williams 

Publication date: 5 May 2009

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

Abstract: We give a construction of a torsion invariant of bundles of smooth manifolds which is based on the work of Dwyer, Weiss and Williams on smooth structures on fibrations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1911

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomology classeshigher torsionsmooth bundleBecker-Gottlieb transferK-theory of spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Whitehead (and related) torsion (19J10) Fibrewise topology (55R70)

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