A General Expression for the 14th Chern Form

1999/05/01 by C. C. Briggs, Briggs, C. C.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9905003

2 pages

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Abstract

A general expression is given for the 14th Chern form in terms of simple polynomial concomitants of the curvature 2-form for n-dimensional differentiable manifolds having a general linear connection.

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