Download or read book Vector fields on Singular Varieties written by Jean-Paul Brasselet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many authors have questioned the use of the index of the vector field, and of the Chern classes, if the underlying space becomes singular. This book discusses their explorations within the framework of the obstruction theory and the Chern-Weil theory.