Abstract
We prove Milnor-Wood inequalities for local products of manifolds. As a consequence, we establish the generalized Chern conjecture for products M × ∑k of any manifold M and k copies of a surface ∑ for k sufficiently large.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1733-1742 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Algebraic and Geometric Topology |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geometry and Topology