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The Quantitative Theory of Foliations

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H. Blaine Lawson Jr.

Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year: 1977; Volume 27
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4162-4 (print); 978-1-4704-2387-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/027

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Chapters

• Chapter I. Basic definitions and some examples
• Chapter II. The concept of holonomy
• Appendix II. 1: Linear connections: The frame bundle
• Appendix II. 2: Linear connections: Covariant differentiation
• Chapter III. Topological obstructions to integrability and characteristic classes
• Chapter IV. Classification theory
• Chapter V. $H^*(B\Gamma _q^{\gamma })$ and Gelfand-Fuks cohomology