An invariant for certain smooth manifolds |
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| Authors: | James Eells Jr Nicolaas H Kuiper |
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| Institution: | (1) Columbia University, New York;(2) Landbcuwhogeschool, Wageningen, Netherlands;(3) Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. |
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| Abstract: | Summary Starting with Hirzebruch's A-genus we define a numerical invariantμ for certain (4k-1)-manifolds. We produce examples to show howμ can distinguish differentiable structures on certain topological manifolds.
To Enrico Bompiani on his scientific Jubilee
Research partially supported by the Office of Naval Rescarch under Contract 266 (57).
This author has a research grant from the National Science Foundation NSF-G-13989. |
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