Wall manifolds

Stong, R. E.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1979-0531980-5

Wall manifolds
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 251 (1979), 287-298 Request permission

Abstract:

In the calculation of the oriented cobordism ring, it is standard to consider so-called Wall manifolds, for which the first Stiefel-Whitney class is the reduction of an integral class. This paper studies the Wall-type structures in the equivariant case.

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