Accession Number:

AD0259876

Title:

THE TORSION PONTRYAGIN CLASSES

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY

Personal Author(s):

• THOMAS,EMERY

Report Date:

1961-06-30

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

Torsion Pontryagin classes are expressed in terms of the standard characteristic classes of a real n-plane bundle over a paracompact space. The theorem contains three equivalent expressions for these classes.

Descriptors:

• *ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
• GROUPS(MATHEMATICS)
• OPERATORS(MATHEMATICS)

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE