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These notes form the next episode in a series of articles dedicated to a detailed proof of a cohomological index formula for transversally elliptic pseudo-differential operators and applications. The first two chapters are already available…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-21 Paul-Emile Paradan , Michèle Vergne

This paper studies the relationship between the sections and the Chern or Pontrjagin classes of a vector bundle by the theory of connection. Our results are natural generalizations of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jianwei Zhou

We introduce a notion of `proChow group' of varieties, agreeing with the notion of Chow group for complete varieties and covariantly functorial with respect to arbitrary morphisms. We construct a natural transformation from the functor of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-11 Paolo Aluffi

We propose a version of the Hodge conjecture in Bott-Chern cohomology and using results from characterizing real holomorphic chains by real rectifiable currents to provide a proof for this question. We define a Bott-Chern differential…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Jyh-Haur Teh , Chin-Jui Yang

We prove that Chern classes in continuous $\ell$-adic cohomology of automorphic bundles associated to representations of $G$ on a projective Shimura variety with data $(G,X)$ are trivial rationally. It is a consequence of Beilinson's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Hélène Esnault , Michael Harris

In this paper, we shall discuss possible theories of defining equivariant singular Bott-Chern classes and corresponding uniqueness property. By adding a natural axiomatic characterization to the usual ones of equivariant Bott-Chern…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Shun Tang

A theory of differential characters is developed for manifolds with boundary. This is done from both the Cheeger-Simons and the deRham-Federer viewpoints. The central result of the paper is the formulation and proof of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-22 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

In this paper we obtain some explicit expressions for the Euler characteristic of a rank n coherent sheaf F on P^N and of its twists F(t) as polynomials in the Chern classes c_i(F), also giving algorithms for the computation. The employed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-17 Cristina Bertone

In this paper a formula is proved for the general degeneracy locus associated to an oriented quiver of type A_n. Given a finite sequence of vector bundles with maps between them, these loci are described by putting rank conditions on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Anders S. Buch , William Fulton

Here we are fixing an output of a trivial calculation based on Konsevich's differential 2-form for the Chern class of polygon bundle. As a result an interesting combinatorics and arithmetics jumps right out of a jukebox. The calculation…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Nikolai Mnev

We study the quantization of spaces whose K-theory in the classical limit is the ring of dual numbers $\mathbb{Z}[t]/(t^2)$. For a compact Hausdorff space we recall necessary and sufficient conditions for this to hold. For a compact quantum…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Francesco D'Andrea , Giovanni Landi , Chiara Pagani

For any (n-1)-dimensional simplicial complex, we construct a particular n-dimensional complex vector bundle over the associated Davis-Januszkiewicz space whose Chern classes are given by the elementary symmetric polynomials in the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Dietrich Notbohm

We prove that Chern-Weil forms are the only natural differential forms associated to a connection on a principal G-bundle. We use the homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves on smooth manifolds to formulate the theorem and set up the proof.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Daniel S. Freed , Michael J. Hopkins

The characteristic forms in the bundle of connections of a principal bundle P over M determine the characteristic classes of P for degree less or equal to the dimension of M, and differential forms on the space of connections for higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Roberto Ferreiro Perez

We obtain refined generating series formulae for equivariant characteristic classes of external and symmetric products of singular complex quasi-projective varieties. More concretely, we study equivariant versions of Todd, Chern and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Laurentiu Maxim , Joerg Schuermann

We construct Euler and Stiefel-Whitney classes of vector bundles with quadratic form by analyzing the intersection theory of the associated quadric bundles. We also compute the Chow rings of quadric and isotropic flag bundles. Along the…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 D. Edidin , W. Graham

We study $S^1$-bundles and $S^1$-gerbes over differentiable stacks in terms of Lie groupoids, and construct Chern classes and Dixmier-Douady classes in terms of analogues of connections and curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Behrend , Ping Xu

In this paper,we extend the definition of the Chern-Simons type characteristic classes in the continuous case to abelian lattice gauge theory. Then, we show that the exterior differential of a k-th Chern-Simons type characteristic class is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-04 Mengyao Wu , Jie Yang

We develop the theory of Chern-Simons bundle 2-gerbes and multiplicative bundle gerbes associated to any principal $G$-bundle with connection and a class in $H^4(BG, \ZZ)$ for a compact semi-simple Lie group $G$. The Chern-Simons bundle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Alan L. Carey , Stuart Johnson , Michael K. Murray , Danny Stevenson , Bai-Ling Wang

We discuss secondary (and higher) characteristic classes for algebraic vector bundles with trivial top Chern class. We show that if X is a smooth affine scheme of dimension d over a field k of finite 2-cohomological dimension (with char(k)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Aravind Asok , Jean Fasel