Curvature operators and characteristic classes
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چکیده
منابع مشابه
Characteristic Classes
These are lecture notes for a series of five lectures I gave to other graduate students about characteristic classes through UT Austin’s summer minicourse program (see https://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/ richard.wong/Minicourses.html for more details). Beware of potential typos. In these notes I cover the basic theory of Stiefel-Whitney, Wu, Chern, Pontrjagin, and Euler classes, introducing some i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0002-9947
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-1982-0637040-7