The global defect index

DOI10.1007/S002200050587MaRDI QIDQ1809300zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Bechtluft-Sachs, Marco Hien

Publication date 16 December 1999

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050587

zbMATH Keywords

defect componentfibre homotopicfibre homotopy classglobal behaviour of a defect mappingglobal defect indexlocal defect indexlong exact sequencenematicsWhitehead product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups (55Q99) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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