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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.

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