Realizing characteristic classes by manifolds

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(84)90031-2zbMath0557.57012OpenAlexW2054199163MaRDI QIDQ761671

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

Stiefel-Whitney classesPoincaréexotic characteristic classesclassifying space for stable spherical fibrationsduality spaceSpivak fibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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