Subject: respnse in re: char classes
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:46:59 -0500
From: jim stasheff <stasheff@email.unc.edu>

Response to
From: rezazadegan@math.sharif.edu
"There is a sentense in
"M. Atyiah Collected works, vol 3  ,p77"
about charecteristic classes wich says:
"Roughly speaking one considers the cycles where a given number of
vector
fields becomes linearly dependent."


one interpretations (i'm sure there are others)
triangulate the manifold
the interior of each top simplex admits a full set of
independent vector fields now try to extend over the
n-l-skeleton
then the n-2 skeleton
until you can't go any further