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Complete intersections and the Kervaire invariant

Characteristic Classes And Bordism

Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 763)

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  • Quadratic Form
  • Complete Intersection
  • Normal Bundle
  • Homology Class
  • Whitney Class

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Browder, W. (1979). Complete intersections and the Kervaire invariant. In: Dupont, J.L., Madsen, I.H. (eds) Algebraic Topology Aarhus 1978. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088079

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