Higher transgressions of the Pfaffian

DOI10.4171/RMI/1358zbMATH Open1504.58003arXiv2011.06538MaRDI QIDQ2104838FDOQ2104838

Authors: Sergiu Moroianu 

Publication date: 8 December 2022

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define transgressions of arbitrary order, with respect to families of unit-vector fields indexed by a polytope, for the Pfaffian of metric connections for semi-Riemannian metrics on vector bundles. We apply this formula to compute the Euler characteristic of a Riemannian polyhedral manifold in the spirit of Chern's differential-geometric proof of the generalized Gauss-Bonnet formula on closed manifolds and on manifolds-with-boundary. As a consequence, we derive an identity for spherical and hyperbolic polyhedra linking the volumes of faces of even codimension and the measures of outer angles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06538

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zbMATH Keywords

Pfaffian formmanifolds with polyhedral boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Stratified sets (58A35)

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