Fundamental Class

The canonical generator of the nonvanishing homology group on a topological manifold.

See also

Chern Number, Pontryagin Number, Stiefel-Whitney Number

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Fundamental Class." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FundamentalClass.html

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