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The Chern character for Lie-Rinehart algebras

Helge Maakestad (2005)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

Let A be a commutative S -algebra where S is a ring containing the rationals. We prove the existence of a Chern character for Lie-Rinehart algebras L over A with values in the Lie-Rinehart cohomology of L which is independent of choice of a L -connection. Our result generalizes the classical Chern character from the K -theory of A to the algebraic De Rham cohomology.

The computation of Stiefel-Whitney classes

Pierre Guillot (2010)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

The cohomology ring of a finite group, with coefficients in a finite field, can be computed by a machine, as Carlson has showed. Here “compute” means to find a presentation in terms of generators and relations, and involves only the underlying (graded) ring. We propose a method to determine some of the extra structure: namely, Stiefel-Whitney classes and Steenrod operations. The calculations are explicitly carried out for about one hundred groups (the results can be consulted on the Internet).Next,...

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