The Euler characteristic of an affine space form is zero

DOI10.1090/S0002-9904-1975-13896-1zbMath0313.57009OpenAlexW1981080020MaRDI QIDQ4072539

Bertram Kostant, Dennis Sullivan

Publication date: 1975

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9904-1975-13896-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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