Curvature and Characteristic Classes

ISBN-13: 9783540086635 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 180 str.

J. L. DuPont

Spis treści

Differential forms and cohomology.- Multiplicativity. The simplicial de rham complex.- Connections in principal bundles.- The chern-weil homomorphism.- Topological bundles and classifying spaces.- Simplicial manifolds. The chern-weil homomorphism for BG.- Characteristic classes for some classical groups.- The chern-weil homomorphism for compact groups.- Applications to flat bundles.- Errata.