On an invariant of a smooth manifold
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Publication:3344853
DOI10.1070/RM1984v039n02ABEH003128zbMath0551.57010MaRDI QIDQ3344853
Publication date: 1984
Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)
curvature form; connection form; Atiyah-Patodi-Singer functional; Chern-Weil homomorphism; smooth invariant; Hirzebruch polynomials; principal tangent bundle of smooth n-manifold; secondary characteristic classes of Chern and Simons
57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology
53C05: Connections (general theory)
55R40: Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology