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Characteristic classes of piecewise differential affine connections on smooth manifolds
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    Characteristic classes of piecewise differential affine connections on smooth manifolds (English)
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    26 June 1992
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    The Chern-Weil construction for the characteristic classes is extended to the case of piecewise differentiable Riemannian metrics and affine connections. This paves the way to a general framework for attacking the problem of describing local combinatorial invariants on smooth manifolds.
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    combinatorial invariants
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    Chern-Weil construction
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