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The space of sections of a sphere-bundle I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

M. C. Crabb  and
W. A. Sutherland
M. C. Crabb
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen AB9 2TY, Scotland
W. A. Sutherland
Affiliation:
New College, Oxford 0X1 3BN, England
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Throughout this paper X will be a finite connected CW-complex of dimension m, and ξ will be a real (n + l)-plane bundle over X(n >0) equipped with a Riemannian metric. We aim to give a systematic account of the space ГSξ of sections of the sphere-bundle Sξ.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , October 1986 , pp. 383 - 403
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1986

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