Pontryagin classes of locally symmetric manifolds
Geometric Topology
2015-11-25 v1 Algebraic Topology
Representation Theory
Abstract
In this note we compute low degree rational Pontryagin classes for every closed locally symmetric manifold of noncompact type. In particular, we answer the question: Which locally symmetric M have at least one nonzero Pontryagin class?
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@article{arxiv.1404.1115,
title = {Pontryagin classes of locally symmetric manifolds},
author = {Bena Tshishiku},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1115},
year = {2015}
}
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