Author | Dupont, Johan L. author |
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Title | Curvature and Characteristic Classes [electronic resource] / by Johan L. Dupont |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1978 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0065364 |
Descript | XII, 180 p. online resource |
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