Semicharacteristics, Bordism, and Free Group Actions

DOI10.2307/2001207MaRDI QIDQ3830239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James F. Davis, R. James Milgram

Publication date 1989

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2001207

zbMATH Keywords

bordism group of closed oriented manifolds with a free G actioncharacteristic class formulacompact closed manifolds with finite-dimensional groupodd L- groupsemicharacteristic classessurgery obstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite groups of transformations in algebraic topology (including Smith theory) (55M35) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Cobordism in PL-topology (57Q20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Equivariant cobordism (57R85)

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