Smooth parametrized torsion -- a manifold approach

2007/11/13 by Badzioch, Bernard, Dorabiala, Wojciech, Williams, Bruce
#19J10 #55R10 #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #FOS: Mathematics #K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0711.1911

Abstract

We give 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.

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