Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: algebra versus topology
- 2 The Stiefel manifolds
- 3 The auxiliary spaces
- 4 Retractible fibrations
- 5 Thom spaces
- 6 Homotopy equivariance
- 7 Cross-sections and the S-type
- 8 Relative Stiefel manifolds
- 9 Cannibalistic characteristic classes
- 10 Exponential characteristic classes
- 11 The main theorem of J-theory
- 12 The fibre suspension
- 13 Canonical automorphisms
- 14 The iterated suspension
- 15 Samelson products
- 16 The Hopf construction
- 17 The Bott suspension
- 18 The intrinsic join again
- 19 Homotopy-commutativity
- 20 The triviality problem
- 21 When is Pn, k neutral?
- 22 When is Vn, 2 neutral?
- 23 When is Vn, k neutral?
- 24 Further results and problems
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Exponential characteristic classes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: algebra versus topology
- 2 The Stiefel manifolds
- 3 The auxiliary spaces
- 4 Retractible fibrations
- 5 Thom spaces
- 6 Homotopy equivariance
- 7 Cross-sections and the S-type
- 8 Relative Stiefel manifolds
- 9 Cannibalistic characteristic classes
- 10 Exponential characteristic classes
- 11 The main theorem of J-theory
- 12 The fibre suspension
- 13 Canonical automorphisms
- 14 The iterated suspension
- 15 Samelson products
- 16 The Hopf construction
- 17 The Bott suspension
- 18 The intrinsic join again
- 19 Homotopy-commutativity
- 20 The triviality problem
- 21 When is Pn, k neutral?
- 22 When is Vn, 2 neutral?
- 23 When is Vn, k neutral?
- 24 Further results and problems
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Topology of Stiefel Manifolds , pp. 62 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977