Comptes Rendus
no. 4
Geometry/Topology
Relative hyperbolization and Pontrjagin classes
Miklaël Gromov
B.Z. Hu1
1Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 4, pp. 253-257

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.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2005.12.020

B.Z. Hu  1

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