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On the KOℤ/2-Euler class, II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. C. Crabb
M. C. Crabb
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Department of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2TY, Scotland, U.K
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Let ξ be an oriented n-dimensional real vector bundle over an oriented closed m-manifold X. An r-field on ξ defined outside a finite subset of X has an index in the homotopy group πm−l(Vn,r) of the Stiefel manifold of r-frames in ℝn. The principal theorems of this paper relate the d and e-invariants of an associated ℝ/2-equivariant stable homotopy class, in certain cases, to computable cohomology characteristic numbers. Results of this type were first obtained by Atiyah and Dupont [5].

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 117 , Issue 1-2 , 1991 , pp. 139 - 154
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

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