Characteristic classes for the degenerations of two-plane fields in four dimensions

DOI10.2140/pjm.1997.179.355zbMath0895.58004arXivdg-ga/9704001OpenAlexW2107389711MaRDI QIDQ1368579

Richard Montgomery, Maxim E. Kazaryan, Boris Zalmanovich Shapiro

Publication date: 14 September 1998

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9704001

zbMATH Keywords

four-manifoldfirst Chern classEngel distributionstwo-plane distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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