Smooth parametrized torsion: A manifold approach

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2009.01.005zbMath1166.19001arXiv0711.1911MaRDI QIDQ1016485

Bruce Williams, Bernard Badzioch, Wojciech Dorabiała

Publication date: 5 May 2009

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology classes; higher torsion; smooth bundle; Becker-Gottlieb transfer; K-theory of spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55R40: Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology

55R70: Fibrewise topology

18F25: Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects)

19J10: Whitehead (and related) torsion

19D10: Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces

57R50: Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms

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