TRANSGRESSION FORMS IN DIMENSION 4

DOI10.1142/S0219887806001442MaRDI QIDQ3426895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Isabel Salavessa, Ana Pereira do Vale

Publication date 13 March 2007

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412389

zbMATH Keywords

almost complex structuresalmost quaternionic Kählercharacteristic classescurvature tensorsdimension 4 and 8singular connectionstransgression forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Calibrations and calibrated geometries (53C38) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: We compute explicit transgression forms for the Euler and Pontrjagin classes of a Riemannian manifold $M$ of dimension 4 under a conformal change of the metric, or a change to a Riemannian connection with torsion. These formulae describe the singular set of some connections with singularities on compact manifolds as a residue formula in terms of a polynomial of invariants. We give some applications for minimal submanifolds of Kaehler manifolds. We also express the difference of the first Chern class of two almost complex structures, and in particular an obstruction to the existence of a homotopy between them, by a residue formula along the set of anti-complex points. Finally, we take the first steps in the study of obstructions for two almost quaternionic-Hermitian structures on a manifold of dimension 8 to have homotopic fundamental forms or isomorphic twistor spaces.

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