Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem and differential characters
Differential Geometry
2017-08-15 v5 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
In this paper we first prove that every differential character can be represented by differential form with singularities. Then we lift the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem for vector bundles to differential characters.
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@article{arxiv.1502.01226,
title = {Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem and differential characters},
author = {Man-Ho Ho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01226},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
11 pages. Comments are welcome. Final version. To appear in Results in Mathematics