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Topology and Geometry Seminar

Location: CL 416

Speaker: Carlos Gabriel Valenzuela Ruiz, University of Regina

Title: Characteristic classes: A computation and the Splitting Principle

Abstract:  

In this talk we’ll continue where we left off last week. We’ll explore a direct and non-trivial application of the Stiefel-Whitney classes we constructed in the previous talk. Then I’ll present and prove the splitting principle and perform some computations with it, in particular, we’ll prove the uniqueness of the S-W classes.