Kervaire semi-characteristic

In mathematics, the Kervaire semi-characteristic, introduced by Kervaire (1956), is an invariant of manifolds M of dimension 4n+1 taking values in Z/2Z, given by

k(M) =

Atiyah & Singer (1971) showed that it is given by the index of a skew-adjoint elliptic operator.

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