A geometric criterion for the boundedness of characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/S00208-010-0610-7MaRDI QIDQ652234zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Indira Chatterji, Guido Mislin, Christophe Pittet, Laurent Saloff-Coste

Publication date 14 December 2011

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3841

zbMATH Keywords

Borel cohomologydistorsionradical of a Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Abstract: We show that each integral Borel cohomology class of a connected Lie group G can be represented by a Borel bounded cocycle if and only if the radical of G is linear. This leads to a generalization of Gromov's boundedness theorem on characteristic classes of flat bundles.

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