The differentiable space structures of Milnor classifying spaces, simplicial complexes, and geometric realizations

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214434974zbMath0427.58005OpenAlexW1551517031WikidataQ115189089 ScholiaQ115189089MaRDI QIDQ1136407

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214434974

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil homomorphism at the cochain level de Rham theory on differentiable spaces geometric realization of a semi-simplicial manifold smooth functions and differential forms on the Milnor classifying space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32) Differential spaces (58A40)

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