A geometric criterion for the boundedness of characteristic classes

DOI10.1007/S00208-010-0610-7zbMATH Open1241.57044arXiv0904.3841OpenAlexW2071757521MaRDI QIDQ652234FDOQ652234

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

Publication date: 14 December 2011

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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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)

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