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Cheeger-Chern-Simons classes of transversally symmetric foliations: Dependence relations and eta-invariants (English)
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25 August 1994
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The classical ``Proportionality Principle'' of F. Hirzebruch states that for two compact locally symmetric Hermitian spaces of the same non- compact type, the corresponding sets of Chern numbers are proportional with proportionality factor given by the ratio of the two volumes. For odd-dimensional manifolds all rational primary characteristic numbers are zero for trivial reasons, but instead there are well-defined secondary characteristic numbers of Cheeger-Chern-Simons type, the most important of which is the eta-invariant of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer. Analogously to the Hirzebruch Proportionality Principle we associate to the class of locally symmetric spaces with given universal covering a ``degree of dependence'' \(d\), and show that the set of secondary characteristic numbers for this class of manifolds is a rational vector space of at most dimension \(d\).
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proportionality principle
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degree of dependence
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Cheeger-Chern-Simons class
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transversally symmetric foliation
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compact locally symmetric Hermitian spaces
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secondary characteristic numbers
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eta-invariant
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