BORDISMS OF COMPLEX SUBBUNDLES OF TANGENT BUNDLES

Adnan Al-Bsoul
Supervisor:Turgut Onder
January 1994, 42 Pages


Abstract: In this work, bordism groups of complex subbundles of tangent bundles of smooth (oriented) manifolds are 

introduced. A concrete criteria as to when a complex bundle x over a manifold M is bordant to a complex subbundle of 

the tangent bundle TM is obtained. Singularity technique, generalized surgery technique were utilized to characterize such 

groups. Such bordism groups are characterized by Stiefel-Whitney and ontryagin numbers. 

Key words: Bordism groups, plane fields, bordisms of plane fields, complex structures on vector 

bundles, complex subbundles of tangent bundles.