A Remark on Chern-Weil Theory

2012/05/28 by Katsylo, P. I.
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.6032

Abstract

We show that Chern-Weil theory for tensor bundles over manifolds is a consequence of the existence of natural closed differential forms on total spaces of torsion free connections on frame bundles.

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