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On 4-fields and 4-distributions in 8-dimensional vector bundles over 8-complexes

Martin Čadek, Jiří Vanžura (1998)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Let ξ be an oriented 8-dimensional spin vector bundle over an 8-complex. In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for ξ to have 4 linearly independent sections or to be a sum of two 4-dimensional spin vector bundles, in terms of characteristic classes and higher order cohomology operations. On closed connected spin smooth 8-manifolds these operations can be computed.

On a secondary invariant of the hyperelliptic mapping class group

Takayuki Morifuji (2009)

Banach Center Publications

We discuss relations among several invariants of 3-manifolds including Meyer's function, the η-invariant, the von Neumann ρ-invariant and the Casson invariant from the viewpoint of the mapping class group of a surface.

On Gauss-Bonnet curvatures.

Labbi, Mohammed-Larbi (2007)

SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications [electronic only]

On oriented vector bundles over CW-complexes of dimension 6 and 7

Martin Čadek, Jiří Vanžura (1992)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of n -dimensional oriented vector bundles ( n = 3 , 4 , 5 ) over CW-complexes of dimension 7 with prescribed Stiefel-Whitney classes w 2 = 0 , w 4 and Pontrjagin class p 1 are found. As a consequence some results on the span of 6 and 7-dimensional oriented vector bundles are given in terms of characteristic classes.

On residue formulas for characteristic numbers

Francisco Gómez Ruiz (2009)

Banach Center Publications

We show that coefficients of residue formulas for characteristic numbers associated to a smooth toral action on a manifold can be taken in a quotient field Q ( X , . . . , X r ) . This yields canonical identities over the integers and, reducing modulo two, residue formulas for Stiefel Whitney numbers.

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