Relations among characteristic classes a
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Arthur G. Wasserman
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In this paper we consider relations between characteristic classes and fixed point sets of group actions. The first such example of such a relation is Hopf's theorem relating the zeroes of a vector field on a manifold (fixed points of an action of R) to the Euler characteristic of the manifold. More