La conjecture des immersions
La géométrie différentielle dans la catégorie
La catégorie des fibrés vectoriels sur les variétés linéaires par morceaux se plonge dans une catégorie des classes d’équivalence de faisceaux de modules sur les faisceaux de germes des fonctions lissables, et on construit les classes de Pontrjagin, vérifiant des axiomes habituels. Chaque variété possède un objet tangent dans cette catégorie, et est la classe totale de Pontrjagin associée à .
Le calcul des classes duales aux singularités de Boardman d'ordre deux
Les inégalités de Morse
Lie theory and the Chern–Weil homomorphism
Line bundles with
We prove that on a -complex the obstruction for a line bundle to be the fractional power of a suitable pullback of the Hopf bundle on a 2-dimensional sphere is the vanishing of the square of the first Chern class of . On the other hand we show that if one looks at integral powers then further secondary obstructions exist.
Line Fields with Branch Defects.
Linear direct connections
In this paper we study the geometry of direct connections in smooth vector bundles (see N. Teleman [Tn.3]); we show that the infinitesimal part, , of a direct connection τ is a linear connection. We determine the curvature tensor of the associated linear connection As an application of these results, we present a direct proof of N. Teleman’s Theorem 6.2 [Tn.3], which shows that it is possible to represent the Chern character of smooth vector bundles as the periodic cyclic homology class of a...
Link invariants via the eta invariant.
L'invariant de Witt de la forme Tr(x2).
Local Formulae for Stiefel-Whitney classes.
Local invariants of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold.
Localization of basic characteristic classes
We introduce basic characteristic classes and numbers as new invariants for Riemannian foliations. If the ambient Riemannian manifold is complete, simply connected (or more generally if the foliation is a transversely orientable Killing foliation) and if the space of leaf closures is compact, then the basic characteristic numbers are determined by the infinitesimal dynamical behavior of the foliation at the union of its closed leaves. In fact, they can be computed with an Atiyah-Bott-Berline-Vergne-type...
Localization of Topological Pontryagin Classes via Finite Propagation Speed.