Grassmannians and Gauss maps in piecewise-linear topology

DOI10.1007/BFb0084994zbMath0673.57001MaRDI QIDQ1188537

Norman Levitt

Publication date: 17 September 1992

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss mapimmersiontangent bundlecombinatorial manifoldspiecewise smoothblock bundlecanonical PL bundlesfinite simplicial group actionspiecewise smooth immersionsPL Grassmannianspolyhedral homology manifoldsrational characteristic class of a PL manifoldsmoothing PL manifoldsstratified PL n-manifoldsstratumwise smooth immersion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Equivariant PL-topology (57Q91) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10) Microbundles and block bundles (57Q50)

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