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Canonical reference for Chern characteristic classes
I'm a little uncertain about the definitions for
Chern roots
Chern classes
Chern characters
From perusing several discussions, I gather that if one correlates the nomenclature with that of ...
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Specify the embedding of Lie groups (via the representation map) precisely as the embedding of two differentiable manifolds
How do we specify the embedding of a Lie group $G_1$ as a subgroup into a larger Lie group $G_2$, with $G_1 \subset G_2$ that agree with a constraint on the mapping between their representations?
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Specify the embedding of special unitary group in a Spin group via their representation map
How do we specify the embedding of a Lie group $G_1$ as a subgroup into a larger Lie group $G_2$, with $G_1 \subset G_2$ that agree with a constraint on the mapping between their representations?
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