Geometry in Grassmannians and a generalization of the dilogarithm

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(82)90040-8zbMATH Open0504.57021OpenAlexW2081093620MaRDI QIDQ1836201FDOQ1836201

Authors: Robert MacPherson, I. M. Gel'fand 

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(82)90040-8

zbMATH Keywords

analytic and geometric properties of Grassmann simplicesdifferential forms which generalize the classic dilogarithmfunctional equation for the dilogarithmpolyhedra in the Grassmann manifoldsPontrjagin character formsstable characteristic class for real vector bundlestetrahedral complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous complex manifolds (32M10) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15) Vanishing theorems (32L20)

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