Various structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles over 8-manifolds
Banach Center Publications (1998)
- Volume: 45, Issue: 1, page 183-197
- ISSN: 0137-6934
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topČadek, Martin, and Vanžura, Jiří. "Various structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles over 8-manifolds." Banach Center Publications 45.1 (1998): 183-197. <http://eudml.org/doc/208903>.
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abstract = {The paper is an overview of our results concerning the existence of various structures, especially complex and quaternionic, in 8-dimensional vector bundles over closed connected smooth 8-manifolds.},
author = {Čadek, Martin, Vanžura, Jiří},
journal = {Banach Center Publications},
keywords = {obstructions; Cayley numbers; principle of triality; vector bundle; characteristic classes; classifying spaces; reduction of the structure group},
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