nLab Pontrjagin character

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Cohomology

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The Pontrjagin character is the analog for KO--theory of what the Chern character is for KU--theory. Like the latter may be expressed as a series of Chern classes, so the Pontrjagin character is expressed as a series of Pontrjagin classes.

Equivalently, the Pontrjagin character is the Chern-Dold character on KO.

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