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On the Cohomology of Classifying Spaces of Groups of Homeomorphisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Jarek Kȩdra
Jarek Kȩdra*
Affiliation:
School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK, (xlink:href="kedra@abdn.ac.uk">kedra@abdn.ac.uk) Institute of Mathematics, University of Szczecin, ul. Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland
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Abstract

Let M be a closed simply connected 2n-dimensional manifold. The paper is concerned with the cohomology of classifying spaces of connected groups of homeomorphisms of M.

Keywords

fibre integralclassifying spacecharacteristic classPrimary 55R4046M20
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , October 2014 , pp. 763 - 778
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2014 

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