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The Secondary Chern–Euler Class for a General Submanifold
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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We define and study the secondary Chern–Euler class for a general submanifold of a Riemannian manifold. Using this class, we define and study the index for a vector field with non-isolated singularities on a submanifold. As an application, we give conceptual proofs of a result of Chern.
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