A GENERALIZATION OF THE ATIYAH–DUPONT VECTOR FIELDS THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0219199702000841zbMath1015.57017OpenAlexW2072647592MaRDI QIDQ4796556

Weiping Zhang, Zizhou Tang

Publication date: 15 July 2003

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219199702000841

zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlesalmost complex structureobstruction theoryindex theorycross-sectionscharacteristic classvector field problemgeneralized Kervaire semicharacteristicK-theory obstructions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Obstruction theory in algebraic topology (55S35) Geometric applications of topological (K)-theory (19L64) Sectioning fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55S40)

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