{ "id": "1106.2361", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-06-13T00:25:19.000Z", "updated": "2011-06-13T00:25:19.000Z", "title": "Chern classes and generators", "authors": [ "Masaki Kameko" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.AT" ], "abstract": "We give a simple proof for the fact that algebra generators of the mod 2 cohomology of classifying spaces of exceptional Lie groups are given by Chern classes and Stiefel-Whitney classes of certain representations.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-06-13T00:25:19.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "55R40" ], "keywords": [ "chern classes", "exceptional lie groups", "simple proof", "algebra generators", "stiefel-whitney classes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.2361K" } } }