Hopf invariants and differential forms

Abstract

Let $f,g:M \rightarrow N$ be two maps between simply-connected smooth manifolds $M$ and $N$, such that $M$ is compact and $N$ is of finite $\mathbb{R}$-type. The goal of this paper is to use integration of certain differential forms to obtain a complete invariant of the real homotopy classes of the maps $f$ and $g$.