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On some formulas for the characteristic classes of group-actions

  • I. Gelfand-Fuks Theory And Characteristic Classes Of Foliations
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Differential Topology, Foliations and Gelfand-Fuks Cohomology

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ((LNM,volume 652))

The author gratefully acknowledges with thanks partial support from the NSF under Grant MPS 74-11896.

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Bott, R. (1978). On some formulas for the characteristic classes of group-actions. In: Schweitzer, P.A. (eds) Differential Topology, Foliations and Gelfand-Fuks Cohomology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0063501

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