Thursday, December 11, 2008

Fifteenth Annotation

12/11/08

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ChernClass.html

This is a secondary source, which give me the definition of what Chern Class is.

A gadget defined for complex vector bundles.The Chern classes of a complex manifold are the Chern classes of its tangent bundle. The ith Chern class is an obstruction to the existence of (n-i+1) everywhere complex linearly independent vector fields on that vector bundle.The ith Chern class is in the (2i)th cohomology group of the base space.

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