Volumes and characteristic classes of foliations

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(79)90020-XzbMath0436.57012OpenAlexW2086576009MaRDI QIDQ1140910

Robert Brooks

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(79)90020-x

zbMATH Keywords

Diff(M) invariant differential forms on the space of volume-forms of the manifold MGodbillon-Vey invariant of flat bundlesvariation of secondary characteristic classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

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