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A Note on Tangent Bundles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Kenichi Shiraiwa*
Affiliation:
Nagoya University
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The tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold is an important invariant of a differentiable structure. It is determined neither by the topological structure nor by the homotopy type of a manifold. But in some cases tangent bundles depend only on the homotopy types of manifolds.

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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1967

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