Čech cocycles for characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/BF02104916zbMath0859.57029MaRDI QIDQ1924018

Jean-Luc Brylinski, Dennis A. McLaughlin

Publication date: 13 October 1996

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

differential forms; vector bundles; characteristic classes; connections; Chern-Simons classes; instanton number; Čech cocycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

55N05: ?ech types

Related Items

Extended higher cup-product Chern-Simons theories, Local formulae for Stiefel-Whitney classes

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