I. Bucur: L anneau de Chow d une vari t alg brique.- E. Eckmann: Cohomologie et classes caract ristiques.- C. Teleman: Sur le caract re de Chern d un fibr vectoriel complexe diff rentiable.- E. Thomas: Characteristic classes and differentiable manifolds.- A. Van de Ven: Chern cl…
The present work grew out of a study of the Maslov class (e. g. (37]), which is a fundamental invariant in asymptotic analysis of partial differential equations of quantum physics. One of the many in terpretations of this class was given by F. Kamber and Ph. Tondeur (43], and it…
De Rham cohomology is the cohomology of differential forms. This book offers a self-contained exposition to this subject and to the theory of characteristic classes from the curvature point of view. It requires no prior knowledge of the concepts of algebraic topology or cohomolo…
Characteristic classes are central to the modern study of the topology and geometry of manifolds. They were first introduced in topology, where, for instance, they could be used to define obstructions to the existence of certain fiber bundles. Characteristic classes were later d…