Timeline for Whitney sum formula for Pontryagin classes I
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| Nov 4, 2015 at 8:25 | vote | accept | Mark Grant | ||
| Nov 4, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | Mark Grant | @YuryUstinovskiy: Thanks. I see now that I should have gone back and read Milnor and Stasheff more closely before posting this, in particular the first three pages of Chapter 15 (your comment is Lemma 15.1). I still would like a formula for the 2-torsion part though, which I've now asked as a second question. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 8:22 | history | edited | Mark Grant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2015 at 0:25 | comment | added | Yury Ustinovskiy | The reason the classes $c_{2k+1}(E_\mathbb C)$ are 2-torsion is that the complex bundle $E_\mathbb C$ has an anti-linear automorphism (conjugation). | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 19:55 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 19:44 | history | asked | Mark Grant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |