A note on Chern-Weil classes of Cartan connections

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Main Authors: Accornero, Luca, de Melo, Mateus M., Struchiner, Ivan
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Published: 2025
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author Accornero, Luca
de Melo, Mateus M.
Struchiner, Ivan
author_facet Accornero, Luca
de Melo, Mateus M.
Struchiner, Ivan
contents We present a construction of Chern-Weil characteristic classes for pairs Cartan geometries sharing the same underlying data. Given any model Cartan geometry $(Q,ω)$ with underlying data $(G,V)$ and a second Cartan geometry $(P,θ)$ with the same underlying data, we define a subalgebra of polynomials on the Atiyah algebroid of $Q$ together with a characteristic map that recovers the classical Chern-Weil map of a Cartan connection when $(Q,ω)$ arises from a Klein pair modeling $(P,θ)$.
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spellingShingle A note on Chern-Weil classes of Cartan connections
Accornero, Luca
de Melo, Mateus M.
Struchiner, Ivan
Differential Geometry
We present a construction of Chern-Weil characteristic classes for pairs Cartan geometries sharing the same underlying data. Given any model Cartan geometry $(Q,ω)$ with underlying data $(G,V)$ and a second Cartan geometry $(P,θ)$ with the same underlying data, we define a subalgebra of polynomials on the Atiyah algebroid of $Q$ together with a characteristic map that recovers the classical Chern-Weil map of a Cartan connection when $(Q,ω)$ arises from a Klein pair modeling $(P,θ)$.
title A note on Chern-Weil classes of Cartan connections
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00247