Realizing characteristic classes by manifolds

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(84)90031-2MaRDI QIDQ761671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cornelia Wissemann-Hartmann, Ralph Stoecker

Publication date 1984

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(84)90031-2

zbMATH Keywords

classifying space for stable spherical fibrationsduality spaceexotic characteristic classesPoincaréSpivak fibrationStiefel-Whitney classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Review text

We learn that also the exotic characteristic classes can be realized, namely a simply connected Poincaré duality space, whose Stiefel-Whitney classes are all zero.

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