A note on the Whitehead torsion of a bundle modulo a subbundle

Douglas R. Anderson
1972 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society  
The purpose of this note is to show how the sum theorem for Whitehead torsion due to K. W. Kwun and R. H. Szczarba, and generalized by L. C. Siebenmann, may be applied to compute the Whitehead torsion of the total space pair of a bundle pair in terms of the Whitehead torsion of the fiber pair and the Euler characteristic of the base.
doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1972-0322882-7 fatcat:almk5kpspzd4zhv6rkmmd2b6he