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Intrinsically harmonic forms and characterization of flat circle bundles

Differential Geometry 2022-05-31 v1

Abstract

We establish a criterion for the flatness of a principal circle bundle in terms of the intrinsically harmonic form problem. It states that the flatness is equivalent to the intrinsic harmonicity of a certain natural associated form.

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@article{arxiv.2205.14190,
  title  = {Intrinsically harmonic forms and characterization of flat circle bundles},
  author = {Elizeu França and Francesco Mercuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14190},
  year   = {2022}
}
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