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Author:   Dale Husemöller
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 3rd ed. 1994
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9781475722635

ISBN 10:   147572263
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   14 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Preliminaries on Homotopy Theory.- I The General Theory of Fibre Bundles.- 2 Generalities on Bundles.- 3 Vector Bundles.- 4 General Fibre Bundles.- 5 Local Coordinate Description of Fibre Bundles.- 6 Change of Structure Group in Fibre Bundles.- 7 The Gauge Group of a Principal Bundle.- 8 Calculations Involving the Classical Groups.- II Elements of K-Theory.- 9 Stability Properties of Vector Bundles.- 10 Relative K-Theory.- 11 Bott Periodicity in the Complex Case.- 12 Clifford Algebras.- 13 The Adams Operations and Representations.- 14 Representation Rings of Classical Groups.- 15 The Hopf Invariant.- 16 Vector Fields on the Sphere.- III Characteristic Classes.- 17 Chern Classes and Stiefel-Whitney Classes.- 18 Differentiable Manifolds.- 19 Characteristic Classes and Connections.- 20 General Theory of Characteristic Classes.- Appendix 1 Dold’s Theory of Local Properties of Bundles.- Appendix 2 On the Double Suspension.- 4. Single Suspension Sequences.- 7. Double Suspension Sequences.

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