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Euler Classes of Combinatorial Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Michael A. Penna
Michael A. Penna*
Affiliation:
Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Every finite simplicial complex has a tangent bundle in the category of simplicial bundles (see [9]). The goal of this paper is to classify simplicial bundles, and, as an application of this result, to construct Euler classes for a large class of combinatorial manifolds. This construction is closely related to [3] and [4].

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , April 1980 , pp. 783 - 803
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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