The Existence of Combinatorial Formulae for Characteristic Classes

DOI10.2307/1997861zbMath0382.55010OpenAlexW4233107838MaRDI QIDQ4160090

Norman Levitt, Colin P. Rourke

Publication date: 1978

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1997861

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Microbundles and block bundles in algebraic topology (55R60) Microbundles and block bundles (57Q50)

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Cites Work

• Block bundles. II: Transversality
• Stiefel-Whitney homology classes
• Δ-SETS I: HOMOTOPY THEORY
• Δ-SETS II: BLOCK BUNDLES AND BLOCK FIBRATIONS
• On the Theory of Sphere-Bundles

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