LOCALIZATION OF TOPOLOGICAL PONTRJAGIN CLASSES VIA FINITE PROPAGATIONSPEED

Authors
Citation
H. Moscovici et Fb. Wu, LOCALIZATION OF TOPOLOGICAL PONTRJAGIN CLASSES VIA FINITE PROPAGATIONSPEED, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 1, Mathematique, 317(7), 1993, pp. 661-665
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics, General",Mathematics
ISSN journal
07644442
Volume
317
Issue
7
Year of publication
1993
Pages
661 - 665
Database
ISI
SICI code
0764-4442(1993)317:7<661:LOTPCV>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Using the finite propagation speed property of the solutions of the wa ve equation associated to the signature operator on a Lipschitz manifo ld, we obtain explicit local formulae for the real Pontrjagin classes of topological manifolds of dimension other than 4.