Superconnections, Thom classes, and equivariant differential forms

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(86)90007-8MaRDI QIDQ1075641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

bundle of spinorsClifford algebracurvature matrixequivariant formssphere bundlespin structuresuper vector bundleThom class in K-theoryThom formtransgressionvector bundle of even rank over a manifoldWeil algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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