Flat bundles and holonomy homomorphisms.
We introduce the concept of homotopy equivalence for Hopf Galois extensions and make a systematic study of it. As an application we determine all -Galois extensions up to homotopy equivalence in the case when is a Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group.
We introduce the concept of conserved current variationally associated with locally variational invariant field equations. The invariance of the variation of the corresponding local presentation is a sufficient condition for the current beeing variationally equivalent to a global one. The case of a Chern-Simons theory is worked out and a global current is variationally associated with a Chern-Simons local Lagrangian.