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Secondary Characteristic Classes of Lie Algebra Extensions

Differential Geometry 2025-12-24 v1

Abstract

We introduce a notion of secondary characteristic classes of Lie algebra extensions. As a spin-off of our construction we obtain a new proof of Lecomte's generalization of the Chern-Weil homomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08412,
  title  = {Secondary Characteristic Classes of Lie Algebra Extensions},
  author = {Stefan Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08412},
  year   = {2025}
}