This chapter is in no way intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the subject of principal bundles and characteristic classes. Rather, we have tried to assemble a number of relevant results to entice the reader to consult the standard texts. Most of the given proofs are sketchy, though the proofs of the statements that are needed for later applications are complete.
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(2008). Principal Γ-Bundles and Stiefel—Whitney Characteristic Classes. In: Combinatorial Algebraic Topology. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71962-5_8
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