On characteristic classes of compact homogeneous spaces and their applications in compact transformation groups I

DOI10.1007/BF02584633zbMath0487.57014OpenAlexW2018610305MaRDI QIDQ3948331

Wu-yi Hsiang

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02584633

zbMATH Keywords

SU(n)Sp(n)SO(n)roots and weightscharacteristic classes of homogeneous spacesconjugacy classes for the connected component of the identity of the principal isotropy subgroupfirst three Pontrjagin classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

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