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Thomas, A. D. (1970) Characteristic classes and projective modules. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis is in 4 separate parts, of which Chapters 1 and 2. form the first part, and Chapters 3,4,5 are the remaining parts.
The thesis is concerned with characteristic classes, which can be viewed as obstructions to stable triviality. In C:lapter 1 we show just how much information the Chern classes carry in this respect, by proving that they determine th0 stable class up to a finite set. Chapter 3 discusses Chern classes of vector bundles over suspensions, and the effect on Chern classes of collapsing bundles. In Chapter 5 we introduce characteristic classes into algebraic K-theory and show that these have analogous properties to topological characteristic classes, in particular that the first characteristic class is a complete invariant for projective modules of rank 1. Chapter 2 concerns the topological process of blowing up a submanifold and the effect on characteristic classes. For this chapter we need to understand the theory of orientation, umkehr homomorphisms and Riemann-Roch theorems, and this is described in a fairly abstract sense in Chapter 1. Chapter 4 shows how the trace of an endomorphism (which in special cases can be considered as a first characteristic class) can be axiomatized, and proves the existence and uniqueness of a trace under certain finiteness conditions on the category.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Characteristic classes, Projective modules (Algebra), Mathematics, Fiber bundles (Mathematics), K-theory
Official Date: 1970
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1970Submitted
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Mathematics Institute
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Schwarzenberger, R. L. E.
Sponsors: Science Research Council (Great Britain)
Extent: 152 leaves
Language: eng

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