On Sha's secondary Chern-Euler class

Details On Sha's secondary Chern-Euler class On Sha's secondary Chern-Euler class

2009-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2611v2

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Differential Geometry

9 pages. Improved exposition. Final version to appear in "Canadian Mathematical Bulletin"

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For a manifold with boundary, the restriction of Chern's transgression form of the Euler curvature form over the boundary is closed. Its cohomology class is called the secondary Chern-Euler class and used by Sha to formulate a relative Poincar\'e-Hopf theorem, under the condition that the metric on the manifold is locally product near the boundary. We show that the secondary Chern-Euler form is exact away from the outward and inward unit normal vectors of the boundary by explicitly constructing a transgression form. Using Stokes' theorem, this evaluates the boundary term in Sha's relative Poincar\'e-Hopf theorem in terms of more classical indices of the tangential projection of a vector field. This evaluation in particular shows that Sha's relative Poincar\'e-Hopf theorem is equivalent to the more classical Law of Vector Fields.

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