Citation
Jm. Bismut et J. Lott, TORUS BUNDLES AND THE GROUP COHOMOLOGY OF GL(N,Z), Journal of differential geometry, 47(2), 1997, pp. 196-236
Citations number
12
Journal title
ISSN journal
0022040X
Volume
47
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
196 - 236
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-040X(1997)47:2<196:TBATGC>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We prove the vanishing of a certain characteristic class of flat vecto
r bundles when the structure groups of the bundles are contained in GL
(N, Z). We do so by explicitly writing the characteristic class as an
exact form on the base of the bundle.