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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 4:30pm

Mark Macerato

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

In this talk, we will cover obstruction theory for real vector bundles over CW complexes. We will introduce the primary obstruction classes for such a bundle, and relate them to the Stiefel-Whitney classes and the Euler class (in the oriented case). To do so, we will need to review cohomology with local coefficients, the Gysin sequence, and the oriented universal rank n vector bundle.