Some exotic characteristic homomorphism for Lie algebroids (Q409697)

The characteristic classes are global invariants of geometric structures on principal fibre bundles on manifolds determined by connections and having important topological properties. The authors define some secondary characteristic homomorphism for the triple \((A,B,\nabla)\), in which \(B\subset A\) is a pair of regular Lie algebroids over the same foliated manifold and \(\nabla:L\to A\) is a flat \(L\)-connection in A, where \(L\) is an arbitrary Lie algebroid. They show that characteristic classes from its image generalize simultaneously known exotic characteristic classes for flat regular Lie algebroids (given by Kubarski) and flat principal fibre bundles with a reduction (given by Kamber, Tondeur). For a pair of regular Lie algebroids \(B\subset A\) and for the special case of the flat connection {id}\(_A:A\to A\) the authors obtain a characteristic universal homomorphism, in the sense that it is a factor of any other one for an arbitrary flat \(L\)-connection \(\nabla:L\to A\).