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Torus bundles and the group cohomology of GL(N,Z)

Jean-Michel Bismut, John Lott

dg-gaarXiv:dg-ga/9502004

Abstract

We prove the vanishing of a certain characteristic class of flat vector bundles when the structure groups of the bundles are contained in GL(N,Z). We do so by explicitly writing the characteristic class as an exact form on the base of the bundle.

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