Seminars: Nikolai Mnev, The combinatorial models for BO, BPL and a conjecture on smoothing of CD-manifolds

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General Mathematics Seminar of the St. Petersburg Division of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences April 13, 2006, St. Petersburg, POMI, room 311 (27 Fontanka)

The combinatorial models for BO, BPL and a conjecture on smoothing of CD-manifolds Nikolai Mnev
Abstract: In 1994 R. MacPherson has defined a notion of Combinatorial-Differential manifold. We will discuss a current state of a conjecture that any CD-structure defines a differential structure.