Holonomy and projective equivalence in 4-dimensional Lorentz manifolds.
Holonomy groups of complete flat manifolds
We present short direct proofs of two known properties of complete flat manifolds. They say that the diffeomorphism classes of m-dimensional complete flat manifolds form a finite set and that each element of is represented by a manifold with finite holonomy group.
Holonomy orbits of the snake charmer algorithm
Holonomy theory and 4-dimensional Lorentz manifolds.
Holonomy, twisting cochains and characteristic classes
This paper contains a description of various geometric constructions associated with fibre bundles, given in terms of important algebraic object, the “twisting cochain". Our examples include the Chern-Weil classes, the holonomy representation and the so-called cyclic Chern character of Bismut and others (see [2, 11, 27]), also called the Bismut’s class. The later example is the principal one for us, since we are motivated by the attempt to find an algebraic approach to the Witten’s index formula....
Homogeneous Cartan geometries
We describe invariant principal and Cartan connections on homogeneous principal bundles and show how to calculate the curvature and the holonomy; in the case of an invariant Cartan connection we give a formula for the infinitesimal automorphisms. The main result of this paper is that the above calculations are purely algorithmic. As an example of an homogeneous parabolic geometry we treat a conformal structure on the product of two spheres.