Extendable cohomologies for complex analytic varieties (Q834775)

To compute the cohomology with differential forms also for singular complex analytic varieties, the author introduces extendable differentiable differential forms. The sheaf of \(C^{\infty}\)-sections of the vector bundle \(\Lambda^pT^*X'\) on the regular part of \(X\) is extended over the singular locus with the \(C^{\infty}_X\)-module \(\Omega^p_X\otimes_{{\mathcal O}_X}C^{\infty}_X\). These sheaves form a cochain complex, leading to extendable cohomology groups \(H_{\text{ext}}^p(X)\), which are shown to surject onto \(H^p(X)\). As application it is shown that the topological Chern classes of a complex vector bundle can be computed using extendable Chern classes, defined via a Chern-Weil type theory.