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Some natural Stiefel orientations on the normal bundle of the fixed point set of an involution on a smooth manifold are constructed. This result is applied to nonsingular real algebraic varieties in order to generalize Rokhlin's construction of complex orientations on a separating real algebraic curve
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Degtyarev, A.I. (1992). Stiefel orientations on a real algebraic variety. In: Coste, M., Mahé, L., Roy, MF. (eds) Real Algebraic Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1524. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084621
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