TY - BOOK AU - Phillips,Anthony V. AU - Stone,David A. TI - Topological Chern-Weil Theory T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9781470400811 AV - QA613.618 -- .P455 1993eb U1 - 514/.72 PY - 1993/// CY - Providence PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Characteristic classes KW - Fiber bundles (Mathematics) KW - Topological groups KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Combinatorial preliminaries -- 2 The universal side of the problem: the topological Lie algebra, tensor algebra and invariant polynomials -- 3 Parallel transport functions and principal bundles -- 4 The complex C[sub(*)], the twisting cochain of a parallel transportfunction, and the algebraic classifying map S[sub(*)]:C[sub(*)] → ε[sub(*)] -- 5 Cochains on C[sub(*)] with values in Tg[sub(*)] -- 6 The main theorem -- Appendix. The cobar construction, holonomy, and parallel transport functions -- Bibliography UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3113785 ER -