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Thom space

In mathematics, the Thom space, Thom complex, or Pontryagin–Thom construction (named after René Thom and Lev Pontryagin) of algebraic topology and differential topology is a topological space associated to a vector bundle, over any paracompact space.

Works, Significance of Thom's work & The Thom isomorphism

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Construction of the Thom space

The Thom isomorphism

Significance of Thom's work

Consequences for differentiable manifolds

Thom spectrum

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Thom space

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Thom space

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related to Significance of Thom's work · 15
Thom space → By, He, If, In, John Milnor, MG, Quelques, Recall, Sergei Novikov, Steenrod, Stiefel, The, Thom, Thom's, Whitney
related to Construction of the Thom space · 8
Thom space → Finally, If, Let, One, Sph, Then, Thom, We
related to Definition of Thom spectrum · 6
Thom space → BO, By, MO, The, Thom, Thom’s
related to The Thom isomorphism · 6
Thom space → Let, Orientation, The, Then, Thom, We
related to External links · 4
Thom space → EMS Press, Encyclopedia, Mathematics, Thom

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