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