a Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, United States b Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA, United States c Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, IN, United States
Abstract:
We present a construction of a torsion invariant of bundles of smooth manifolds which is based on the work of Dwyer, Weiss and Williams on smooth structures on fibrations.