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Keywords:
Grassmann manifold; height of Stiefel--Whitney characteristic class
Grassmann manifold; height of Stiefel--Whitney characteristic class
Summary:
We compute the height of the third Stiefel--Whitney characteristic class of the canonical bundles over some infinite classes of Grassmann manifolds of five dimensional vector subspaces of real vector spaces.
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