On the vanishing of the dual Stiefel-Whitney classes of orientable manifolds
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Abstract:
We will determine for which values of n and k the dual $(n - k)$-Stiefel-Whitney class of all orientable n-manifolds vanishes.References
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- © Copyright 1979 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 76 (1979), 310-314
- MSC: Primary 57R20; Secondary 57Q35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0537096-1
- MathSciNet review: 537096