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arxiv: 0910.4770 · v1 · submitted 2009-10-25 · 🧮 math.GT · math.AT

Stable characteristic classes of smooth manifold bundles

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Characteristic classes of oriented vector bundles can be identified with cohomology classes of the disjoint union of classifying spaces BSO_n of special orthogonal groups SO_n with n=0,1,... A characteristic class is stable if it extends to a cohomology class of a homotopy colimit BSO of classifying spaces BSO_n. Similarly, characteristic classes of smooth oriented manifold bundles with fibers given by oriented closed smooth manifolds of a fixed dimension d\ge 0 can be identified with cohomology classes of the disjoint union of classifying spaces BDiff M of orientation preserving diffeomorphism groups of oriented closed manifolds of dimension d. A characteristic class is stable if it extends to a cohomology class of a homotopy colimit of spaces BDiff M. We show that each rational stable characteristic class of oriented manifold bundles of even dimension d is tautological, e.g., if d=2, then each rational stable characteristic class is a polynomial in terms of Miller-Morita-Mumford classes.

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