On transgression in associated bundles

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Authors Zhaohu Nie

Publication date 13 February 2013

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3909, http://www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/Vol38-3.html

zbMATH Keywords

associated bundlesChern-Simons formstransgression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: We formulate and prove a formula for transgressing characteristic forms in general associated bundles following a method of Chern. As applications, we derive D. Johnson's explicit formula for such general transgression and Chern's first transgression formula for the Euler class.

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