{"title":"Rational Pontryagin classes of Euclidean fiber bundles","authors":"M. Weiss","doi":"10.2140/gt.2021.25.3351","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The rational Pontryagin classes, evaluated on fiber bundles where the fiber is a 2n-dimensional euclidean space, can be nonzero in cohomology dimensions much greater than 4n. This makes a striking contrast with the Pontryagin classes of vector bundles.","PeriodicalId":55105,"journal":{"name":"Geometry & Topology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geometry & Topology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2021.25.3351","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The rational Pontryagin classes, evaluated on fiber bundles where the fiber is a 2n-dimensional euclidean space, can be nonzero in cohomology dimensions much greater than 4n. This makes a striking contrast with the Pontryagin classes of vector bundles.
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