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Record Nr.

UNISA996466535603316

Autore

Dupont Johan L.

Titolo

Curvature and characteristic classes / / J. L. Dupont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [1978]

©1978

ISBN

3-540-35914-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1978.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 180 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 640

Disciplina

515.37

Soggetti

Characteristic classes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.