The Existence of Combinatorial Formulae for Characteristic Classes

DOI10.2307/1997861MaRDI QIDQ4160090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norman Levitt, Colin Rourke

Publication date 1978

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites work

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

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• Lattice gauge fields, principal bundles and the calculation of topological charge
• The Euler characteristic is the unique locally determined numerical homotopy invariant of finite complexes
• A combinatorial computation of the first Pontryagin class of the complex projective plane
• A Combinatorial Formula for Normal Stiefel-Whitney Classes
• The PL Grassmannian and PL Curvature
• Resolving homologies in BPL and PL characteristic numbers
• Configuration spaces, bistellar moves, and combinatorial formulae for the first Pontryagin class

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