TY - BOOK AU - Dupont,Johan L. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Curvature and Characteristic Classes T2 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics, SN - 9783540359142 AV - QA1-939 U1 - 510 23 PY - 1978/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Mathematics KW - Mathematics, general N1 - Differential forms and cohomology -- Multiplicativity. The simplicial de rham complex -- Connections in principal bundles -- The chern-weil homomorphism -- Topological bundles and classifying spaces -- Simplicial manifolds. The chern-weil homomorphism for BG -- Characteristic classes for some classical groups -- The chern-weil homomorphism for compact groups -- Applications to flat bundles -- Errata UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0065364 ER -