Hopf algebras and universal Chern classes (Q528833)

Summary: We construct a variant \(\mathcal{K}_n\) of the Hopf algebra \(\mathcal{H}_n\), which acts directly on the noncommutative model for the space of leaves of a general foliation rather than on its frame bundle. We prove that the Hopf cyclic cohomology of \(\mathcal{K}_n\) is isomorphic to that of the pair \((\mathcal{H}_n, \mathfrak{gl}_n)\) and thus consists of the universal Hopf cyclic Chern classes. We also realize these classes in terms of geometric cocycles.