Obstruction classes and Pontrjagin classes (Ex)

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Take the stable vector bundle \xi over the 4i-sphere corresponding to a generator of \pi_{4i}(BO) = \mathbb{Z}. By defintion, the the primary obstruction to trivialising \xi^{4i} is a cohomology class x \in H^{4i}(S^{4i}; \pi_{4k-1}(O)) = H^{4i}(S^{4i}) which generates H^{4i}(S^{4i}) \cong \mathbb{Z}.

Exercise 0.1. Determine the i-th integral Pontryagin class of \xi^{4i}, p_i(\xi) \in H^{4i}(S^{4i}), in terms of x.

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