AuthorDupont, Johan L. author
TitleCurvature and Characteristic Classes [electronic resource] / by Johan L. Dupont
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1978
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0065364
Descript XII, 180 p. online resource

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Mathematics
  3. Mathematics
  4. general