Pontryagin classes of locally symmetric manifolds
arXiv:1404.1115 · doi:10.2140/agt.2015.15.2709
Abstract
In this note we compute low degree rational Pontryagin classes for every closed locally symmetric manifold of noncompact type. In particular, we answer the question: Which locally symmetric M have at least one nonzero Pontryagin class?
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