Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem and differential characters

DOI10.1007/s00025-017-0652-1zbMath1378.58021arXiv1502.01226OpenAlexW2963925352MaRDI QIDQ2407002

Man-Ho Ho

Publication date: 4 October 2017

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01226

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theoremCheeger-Simons differential charactersMathai-Quillen's Thom form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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