An analytic proof of Novikov's theorem on rational Pontrjagin classes

DOI10.1007/BF02953773zbMath0531.58045MaRDI QIDQ788365

Dennis Sullivan, Nicolae Teleman

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1983__58__79_0

zbMATH Keywords

signature operator; topological 4-manifold; Lipschitz structure; Lipschitz invariant; ZFM 531.58044

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47A53: (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

58J20: Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds

58J22: Exotic index theories on manifolds

57N65: Algebraic topology of manifolds

57Q99: PL-topology

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