Manifolds and Stiefel-Whitney classes

Anderson, Mark

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1989-0929428-3

Manifolds and Stiefel-Whitney classes
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by Mark Anderson

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 105 (1989), 209-214

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1989-0929428-3

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Abstract:

This paper constructs manifolds which generate the unoriented cobordism ring having a maximum number of vanishing high dimensional Stiefel-Whitney classes.

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