A note on Chern-Weil classes of Cartan connections
Differential Geometry
2026-05-07 v2
Abstract
We present a construction of Chern-Weil characteristic classes for pairs Cartan geometries sharing the same underlying data. Given any model Cartan geometry with underlying data and a second Cartan geometry with the same underlying data, we define a subalgebra of polynomials on the Atiyah algebroid of together with a characteristic map that recovers the classical Chern-Weil map of a Cartan connection when arises from a Klein pair modeling .
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@article{arxiv.2505.00247,
title = {A note on Chern-Weil classes of Cartan connections},
author = {Luca Accornero and Mateus M. de Melo and Ivan Struchiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00247},
year = {2026}
}
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Minor corrections made in this version