On Sha's secondary Chern-Euler class

DOI10.4153/CMB-2011-089-1zbMATH Open1255.57025arXiv0901.2611OpenAlexW1991764105MaRDI QIDQ2909644FDOQ2909644

Authors: Zhaohu Nie 

Publication date: 6 September 2012

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a manifold with boundary, the restriction of Chern's transgression form of the Euler curvature form over the boundary is closed. Its cohomology class is called the secondary Chern-Euler class and used by Sha to formulate a relative Poincar'e-Hopf theorem, under the condition that the metric on the manifold is locally product near the boundary. We show that the secondary Chern-Euler form is exact away from the outward and inward unit normal vectors of the boundary by explicitly constructing a transgression form. Using Stokes' theorem, this evaluates the boundary term in Sha's relative Poincar'e-Hopf theorem in terms of more classical indices of the tangential projection of a vector field. This evaluation in particular shows that Sha's relative Poincar'e-Hopf theorem is equivalent to the more classical Law of Vector Fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2611

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zbMATH Keywords

transgressionlaw of vector fieldlocally product metricsecondary Chern-Euler class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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