Chern-Gauss-Bonnet and Lefschetz duality from a currential point of view

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2017.07.005MaRDI QIDQ2014008zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Cibotaru

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07014

zbMATH Keywords

transgressionGauss-Bonnetmapping coneLefschetz duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Currents in global analysis (58A25)

Abstract: We use the mapping cone for the relative deRham cohomology of a manifold with boundary in order to show that the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for oriented Riemannian vector bundles over such manifolds is a manifestation of Lefschetz Duality in any of the two embodiments of the latter. We explain how Thom isomorphism fits into this picture, complementing thus the classical results about Thom forms with compact support. When the rank is odd, we construct, by using secondary transgression forms introduced here, a new closed pair of forms on the disk bundle associated to a vector bundle, pair which is Lefschetz dual to the zero section.

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