Superconnections, Thom classes, and equivariant differential forms

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(86)90007-8zbMATH Open0592.55015OpenAlexW1982687638WikidataQ105424549 ScholiaQ105424549MaRDI QIDQ1075641FDOQ1075641

Authors: Varghese Mathai, Daniel Gray Quillen 

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(86)90007-8

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zbMATH Keywords

transgressionClifford algebrasphere bundlespin structureequivariant formsWeil algebracurvature matrixbundle of spinorssuper vector bundleThom class in K-theoryThom formvector bundle of even rank over a manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Stable classes of vector space bundles in algebraic topology and relations to (K)-theory (55R50) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Serre spectral sequences (55T10)

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