2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/209934A Q-manifold is a graded manifold endowed with a vector field of degree one squaring to zero. We consider the notion of a Q-bundle, that is, a fiber bundle in the category of Q-manifolds. To each homotopy class of ``gauge fields'' (sections in the category of graded manifolds) and each cohomology class of a certain subcomplex of forms on the fiber we associate a cohomology class on the base. Any principal bundle yielding canonically a Q-bundle, this construction generalizes Chern-Weil classes. Novel examples include cohomology classes that are locally the de Rham differential of the integrands of topological sigma models obtained by the AKSZ-formalism in arbitrary dimensions. For Hamiltonian Poisson fibrations one obtains a characteristic 3-class in this manner. We also relate to equivariant cohomology and Lecomte's characteristic classes of exact sequences of Lie algebras.23 pages, LaTeX, uses diagrams.styDifferential GeometryHigh Energy Physics - TheoryMathematical Physics58A50; 55R10; 57R20; 81T13; 81T45Characteristic classes associated to Q-bundlestext