The dilogarithm as a characteristic class for flat bundles

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(87)90021-1zbMath0624.57024OpenAlexW2088388080MaRDI QIDQ578662

Johan L. Dupont

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(87)90021-1

zbMATH Keywords

dilogarithmhyperbolic spaceChern polynomialCheeger-Chern-Simons classdilogarithmic functionflat SL(2, \({bbfC})\)-bundleshomology group of discrete grouphomology groups of groupsSL(2, \({bbfC})\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Connections of group theory with homological algebra and category theory (20J99)

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