Circle bundles and the Kreck-Stolz invariant

Dai, Xianzhe; Zhang, Wei Ping

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1995-1308006-8

Circle bundles and the Kreck-Stolz invariant
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Abstract:

We present a direct analytic calculation of the $s$-invariant of Kreck-Stolz for circle bundles, by evaluating the adiabatic limits of $\eta$ invariants. We believe that this method should have wider applications.

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