Proposition 3.3 [014J]
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Proposition 3.3
Up to sign, the Chern class of the -fibre bundle is the 1-chain on described as follows. Choose an orientation on the plane containing . View as contained in this same plane as the 1-skeleton of the dual cell complex of the triangulation of determining . Each oriented edge of intersects a unique edge in the triangulation of , oriented so that and intersect positively with respect to the chosen orientation on . The 1-chain assigns to the oriented edge the element of . (See Figure 3.4) This -chain has the property that all coefficients of edges are primitive in , and the three coefficients associated to edges with a common vertex span .
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