Smoothing maps into algebraic sets and spaces of flat connections

DOI10.1007/S10711-014-0022-ZMaRDI QIDQ2256270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Baird, Daniel Ramras

Publication date 19 February 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3341

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil theoryflat connectionChern classreal algebraic setmaps between classifying spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real algebraic sets (14P05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Maps between classifying spaces in algebraic topology (55R37)

Abstract: Let X be a real algebraic subset of R^n and M a smooth, closed manifold. We show that all continuous maps from M to X are homotopic (in X) to C^infty maps. We apply this result to study characteristic classes of vector bundles associated to continuous families of complex group representations, and we establish lower bounds on the ranks of the homotopy groups of spaces of flat connections over aspherical manifolds.

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