Rigidity and characteristic classes of smooth bundles with nonpositively curved fibers (Q2826652)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6640419
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Rigidity and characteristic classes of smooth bundles with nonpositively curved fibers
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6640419

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    Rigidity and characteristic classes of smooth bundles with nonpositively curved fibers (English)
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    18 October 2016
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    Miller-Morita-Mumford classes
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    The authors prove vanishing results for the generalized Miller-Morita-Mumford classes of some smooth bundles whose fiber is a closed manifold that supports a nonpositively curved Riemannian metric. They also find, under some extra conditions, that the vertical tangent bundle is topologically rigid.
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