Relative hyperbolization and Pontrjagin classes

B.Z. Hu

doi:10.1016/j.crma.2005.12.020

Geometry/Topology

Relative hyperbolization and Pontrjagin classes

Presented by: Miklaël Gromov

B.Z. Hu ¹

¹ Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA

Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 4, pp. 253-257.

Abstract
Résumé

The ‘nonpositive curvature retraction theorem’ has a refined version, a version that respects characteristic classes.

Nous précisons que le « théorème de rétraction en courbure non-positif » à une version plus raffiné, une version qui respecte les classes caractéristiques.

Received: 2005-10-05
Accepted: 2005-12-08
Published online: 2006-01-18

DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2005.12.020

Author's affiliations:

B.Z. Hu ¹

¹ Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA

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B.Z. Hu. Relative hyperbolization and Pontrjagin classes. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 4, pp. 253-257. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2005.12.020. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2005.12.020/

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