Extensions of Lie-Rinehart algebras and the Chern-Weil construction

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A Chern-Weil construction for extensions of Lie-Rinehart algebras is introduced. This generalizes the classical Chern-Weil construction in differential geometry and yields characteristic classes for arbitrary extensions of Lie-Rinehart algebras. Some examples arising from spaces with singularities and from foliations are given that cannot be treated by means of the classical Chern-Weil construction.
AMSTeX 2.1, 30 pages

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Differential Geometry

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/152246

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706002
 http://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9706002
 Stasheff Festschrift Cont. Math. 227 (1999), 145-176

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