Pontrjagin class

For a vector bundle E over a 2n-dimensional differentiable manifold M, its Pontrjagin class is (up to a normalization factor) with n copies of F where for any auxilliary connection A over E. It turns out the value is independent of the connection.

See also characteristic class, Chern class and Chern-Simons.

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