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Author(s): Neeta Singh
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 2561-2569.
MSC (1991): Primary 55R40, 55S12, 55S20
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Abstract: We prove the existence and nontriviality of tertiary exotic characteristic classes extending the results of Peterson and Ravenel for secondary exotic classes.

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Neeta Singh
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03277-7
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03277-7
Keywords: Higher cohomology operations, exotic characteristic classes, Dyer-Lashof operations, oriented spherical fibrations
Received by editor(s): September 2, 1994
Communicated by: Thomas Goodwillie
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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