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Characteristic Classes. (AM-76), Volume 76 /

The theory of characteristic classes provides a meeting ground for the various disciplines of differential topology, differential and algebraic geometry, cohomology, and fiber bundle theory. As such, it is a fundamental and an essential tool in the study of differentiable manifolds.In this volume, t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Milnor, John (Autor), Stasheff, James D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:Annals of Mathematics Studies ; 76
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • §1. Smooth Manifolds
  • §2. Vector Bundles
  • §3. Constructing New Vector Bundles Out of Old
  • §4. Stiefel-Whitney Classes
  • §5. Grassmann Manifolds and Universal Bundles
  • §6. A Cell Structure for Grassmann Manifolds
  • §7. The Cohomology Ring H*(Gn; Z/2)
  • §8. Existence of Stiefel-Whitney Classes
  • §9. Oriented Bundles and the Euler Class
  • §10. The Thom Isomorphism Theorem
  • §11. Computations in a Smooth Manifold
  • §12. Obstructions
  • §13. Complex Vector Bundles and Complex Manifolds
  • §14. Chern Classes
  • §15. Pontrjagin Classes
  • §16. Chern Numbers and Pontrjagin Numbers
  • §17. The Oriented Cobordism Ring Ω*
  • §18. Thom Spaces and Transversality
  • §19. Multiplicative Sequences and the Signature Theorem
  • §20. Combinatorial Pontrjagin Classes
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Singular Homology and Cohomology
  • Appendix B: Bernoulli Numbers
  • Appendix C: Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes
  • Bibliography
  • Index