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Some non-embedding theorems for the Grassmann manifolds G2,n and G3,n

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

V. Oproiu
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Department of Mathematics, Iasi University, Romania
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In recent years, the problem of embedding the projective spaces in Euclidean spaces was studied very much, by different methods. Usually, the negative results on the embedding problem are proved by using suitable homotopy invariants. The best known example of such homotopy invariants is given by the Stiefel–Whitney classes.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1977

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