Torus bundles and the group cohomology of GL(N,Z)

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214460111MaRDI QIDQ1383647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jean-Michel Bismut, John Lott

Publication date 7 September 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9502004

zbMATH Keywords

Borel regulator classcharacteristic classflat vector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We prove the vanishing of a certain characteristic class of flat vector bundles when the structure groups of the bundles are contained in GL(N,Z). We do so by explicitly writing the characteristic class as an exact form on the base of the bundle.

Review text

The authors study certain characteristic classes of flat complex vector bundles, which are known in algebraic \(K\)-theory as Borel regulator classes. They prove that if \(N\) is odd and if the structure group of a rank-\(N\) vector bundle is contained in \(GL(N, \mathbb{Z})\), then the Borel class of degree \(2N-1\) is zero. In the proof the characteristic class is written explicitly as an exact form on the base of the bundle.

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