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Cohomology classes associated to vector bundles. Includes Stiefel-Whitney classes, Chern classes, Pontryagin classes, and the Euler class.

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Even, non liftable Stiefel-Whitney class

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and $E$ a smooth real vector bundle of even rank over $M$. If $E$ admits of a complex vector bundle structure $\mathcal E$ ($\mathcal E_\mathbb R=E$) then all odd Stiefel- …
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A geometric characterization for arithmetic genus

First let me note that there is an unfortunate clash in terminology: the arithmetic genus of a smooth complex projective variety $X$ of dimension $n$ can mean either a) The number $\chi (X, \mathca …
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