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On vanishing of characteristic numbers in Poincaré complexes
Author(s):
Yanghyun
Byun
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
348
(1996),
3085-3095.
MSC (1991):
Primary 57P10, 57N65
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Let be the evaluation subgroup as defined by Gottlieb. Assume the Hurewicz map is non-trivial and is a field. We will prove: if is a Poincaré complex oriented in -coefficient, all the characteristic numbers of in -coefficient vanish. Similarly, if and is a -Poincaré complex, then all the mod Wu numbers vanish. We will also show that the existence of a non-trivial derivation on with some suitable conditions implies vanishing of mod Wu numbers.
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Additional Information:
Yanghyun
Byun
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5683
Address at time of publication:
Department of Mathematics, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791 Korea
Email:
Yanghyun.Byun.1@nd.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01495-X
PII:
S 0002-9947(96)01495-X
Keywords:
Characteristic numbers,
evaluation subgroup,
Hurewicz map.
Received by editor(s):
November 14, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
March 20, 1995
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1996,
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